starburst wrote:
I'll give you one, Brian. The US population is increasing only because
of, and I repeat this, *only* because of immigration, and part of that
is from East Asia, including China. Native born US citizens have not
been reproducing at the replacement rate in two or three decades. So
sampling only at the moment and not looking at underlying factors is
pretty misleading, too, huh?

Ahh, I see, you think I want to deflect attention away from China toward
the U.S. No, if I had wanted to do that, I'd have spent the rest of my
post on the U.S. I want to emphasize, in case it wasn't clear, that I
do *not* think the U.S. population statistics are the problem. I think
*attitudes* toward population control are the problem. I think one
place where that attitude has been corrected, to a large extent, is
China, and furthermore, I don't think their growth rate is a problem, as
Michael suggested.

My sarcasm may have obscured that.

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