Re: Overpopulation's self-correcting mode?

Posted by DickT on May 01, 2003 at 13:28:58:

In Reply to: Re: Overpopulation's self-correcting mode? posted by DocN on May 01, 2003 at 08:51:18:

DocN,

At least from the news reports, the reason China has so much problem with SARS is that the government spent weeks in denial. Apparently all that needs to be done to control SARS is quaranteen the infected people. Toronto, which had a wildfire spread of SARS due to sloppy medical procedures, stopped it dead with quaranteens.

So I don't think the problem is total numbers, I think a contributing factor is population density. But any city has a population density far above anything expected for the world at large this century. By the way, the WHO has brought its future population estimates down to acknowledge the spread of the "demographic discontinuity" to the third world.

Regards,
Dick

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