 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. Topics: Family |
| No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. |
| The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. |
| You cannot do only one thing. |
| In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease. |
| Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. |
| Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. |
| Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? |
| But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. |
