Population growth, the environment and fertility control
| Autor: | R. O. Greep |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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Economic growth Ecology media_common.quotation_subject Reproduction (economics) Geography Planning and Development Population Fertility Private sector Pollution Population control Family planning Development economics Population growth Applied research Business Computers in Earth Sciences education Waste Management and Disposal media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Studies. 7:51-55 |
| ISSN: | 1029-0400 0020-7233 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00207237408709672 |
| Popis: | The catastrophic environmental consequences of unchecked human population growth require the development of new means of limiting fertility and an understanding of what motivates individuals to limit family size. Reaching the carrying capacity of the earth would be accompanied by a deterioration in the quality of life and risks of a cataclysmic nature. Presently however 80-85% of the worlds population does not limit family size and failure to limit fertility is not due to absence of effective means of contraception. Couples who do not choose to have fewer children will not practice conception until they are convinced that to do so would have immediate advantages. The biomedical approach to fertility control has a service and research component. The service aspect deals with the promotion of the use of available contraception methods. Distribution problems can easily be overcome the emotional resistance to contraception is the major obstacle to the programs success. Pure research is aimed at understanding the human reproduction process and applied research is looking for new means of preventing conception by finding biologically inactive antagonists to block secretion of natural hormones as innoculating the female so that her immune system would protect her against the advent of pregnancy. Financial support for population control programs is low because: 1) population control is not recognized as a high priority need; 2) reproduction research is considered less important than research into disease; and 3) government regulations requiring expensive testing programs discourage private industry from introducing new contraceptive techniques. |
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