5. Free Birth Control Techniques
Should Be Available Everywhere
Matthew: Peter, what sections of the population do you think free birth control techniques should be available to?
Peter: They should be ...available to all sections of the community er...things are getting to such a pitch that I personally think that ...er...not only should birth control methods be available to all sections of the community, but indeed should be compulsory. There should be some kind of law which says that a family should not have more than three children, a complete maximum of three children, if they have three children then they must be obliged by law, almost, to use birth control, if not have er...various kinds of operation which ...um...make conception impossible.
Matthew: But surely this very er...explosive in social terms?
Peter: It’s very ...it’s a very totalitarian notion, but the alternative...if we look around us in the world outside is millions of people starving to death in places like India, and people suffering from malnutrition in...in other parts of the underdeveloped wor...world and indeed even in parts of the dev...so called developed world.
6. It’s a World Problem
The rapid rise in world population is out creating problems only for the developing countries. The whole world faces the problem that raw materials are being used to up at an increasing rate and food production cannot keep up with the population increase. People in the rich countries make the heaviest demands on the world’s resources, its food, fuel and land, and cause the most pollution. A baby in the United States will use in his lifetime 30 times more of the world’s resources than a baby born in India. Unless all the countries of the world take united action to deal with the population explosion there will be more and more people fighting for a share of less and less land, food and fuel, and the future will bring poverty, misery and war to us all.
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