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Transcript: Family Planning Programs Not Enough to Control Growth
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- September 9, 1994
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ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Not everyone who studies world population has
concluded that population growth is the enemy of prosperity or that
current trends threaten a world population crisis. Researcher Nicholas
Eberstadt says that people who are concerned with alleviating poverty
and disease are missing the mark when they try to control world population
growth.
NICHOLAS EBERSTADT, Population Researcher: Over the course of our
century, while the world's population, it appears, has more than tripled,
we have seen simultaneously an explosion of health in terms of increased
life expectancy all around the globe, almost constant, almost steady
reductions in ...