Is the world sustainable with so many people out of such poor nations? Do you feel guilty that we in the West have so much more than these people? Are they inferior because of their size? With China and India's population over 2.3 billion people and their rapid industrialization the West is going to have to give up to our standard of living in this more compact world. This is seen as Asians move towards Amercia and Europe because they are too crowded. Also, our rising fuel prices are due to their rising demand for fuel. Do we need so many people to satisfy our demand for cheap labor and even that will soon end as they become richer and demand higher wages. Unless the US acts now will China take over the role as the world leader (economically and politically)?
2006-09-25 08:00:22 · 8 answers · asked by gordongecko 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Suppose answer is no, India and China should not be allowed to have such large populaitons if in the long term it negatively affects us.
What should we do about it? Coerce them somehow to lower their birth rate?
Actually, China has imposed a limit on the number of children a family can have as a way of stabilizing its population.
Most European countries are seeing their birth rates and populations decline. If the trend continues, it will stagnate the European economy to the point where many countries will be glad to have young Asian immigrants to fill the gaps in the workforce that will be left by retiring Baby Boomers.
In the long term, poverty in any part of the world affects the U.S. negatively. It reduces our markets, it lowers our standard of living, it increases the likelihood of wars that we may become involved in, it increases the risk of disease.
Therefore, our responsibility as the world's only superpower is to help raise the standard of living in all nations, because it will only help us in the long run.
It's also the right thing to do.
2006-09-25 08:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by johntadams3 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How can the US place any sort of sanction on how many people exsist in another country?
Are you saying that, as these nations develop, they are not entitled to drive cars because your gas price goes up?? (And no doubt you drive your SUV to the corner store to get milk.)
How can you justify keeping some people from existing because it may make your life a little more expensive?
The truth of it is is that it would take the resources of 26 globes to bring the entire world population to a Western Standard of living, but I don't think that means that people in other nations shouldn't exist, I think it means that us Westerners need to take a long hard look at what is really important in our Standard of living.
Think about this:
It is cheaper to sponsor a third world child than to pay your cable bill!!!!
The amount Europeans spend each year on perfume and cologne is enough to clothe, feed and shelter the entire GLOBE!
And what would be so bad to have another counrty take a shot at being the Superpower. Every empire falls. (A thought that allows me to sleep at night as of lately.)
2006-09-25 08:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by elysialaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
China and India acknowledge they have serious populatoin problems but while China has adopted a negative population growth initiative Idia has not.
China will be the only superpower once they take the artificial caps of the yuan and open their currency for investment. That is why the Us wants their currency open now, because when the artificial caps come off the increase in value will be astronomical. It will crush China's poor but it will make the people who invested in it very rich.
2006-09-25 08:14:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
be "ALLOWED" to have such large population???????????
do you think you are gonna wipe us off the planet.
dont feel too good about your material prosperity.
i've seen humble peasants living more happily and content than your so called materially prosperous people.
am from India . Dont ever call others inferior on any grounds. it speaks poorly about you and your country.
dont forget that the asia that you are referring to has been colonized to unimaginable extent (drawing all our resources ; our people were slaved ;)
It's just a little over half a century that we are reconciling with whatever we have , And here you are worried about your standard of living , because harmless people in india , china have started earning a few penny to sustain their life.
if there's a way to grow , to stay on top ,as you would like your country to be , it is not by stopping others but by winning like a champion believing in his own abilities.
2006-09-25 08:30:21 · answer #4 · answered by psychic being 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should India and China be allowed? They both are sovereign nations that are dealing with their population issues. The industrial growth of both nations can be beneficial to the US in regards to trade. Our rising fuel costs are to due to speculation by investors and the instability in the Middle East. Gas here where I live is down to $2.07 per gallon.
2006-09-25 08:09:22 · answer #5 · answered by Bigboi47 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How exactly do you propose the US should "act" to stop the natural course of things as nations rise and fall in power? Or are you a PatBuchananite who believes in "Freedom" but only as far as the border? What business is it of yours what China or India do?
I abhor your arrogance, but (to paraphrase a thinker with some common sense) I heartily defend your right to be so ignorant.
2006-09-25 08:12:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, our rising fuel prices have much to do with the fact that most US citizens are making no effort whatsoever to conserve, and the fact that we are woefully short in refinement capacity.
As for your main question, just what in the heck do you think we have any right whatsoever to do about China's population?
2006-09-25 08:05:19 · answer #7 · answered by toff 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Be allowed ???????????
In case you flunked geography,,,China and India are countrys and have their own laws and rules..
And if you are thinking about the UN,,,it is the most pathetic world organization there is. And it should be removed from the US.
2006-09-25 09:57:40 · answer #8 · answered by ROBERT H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋