Liesje
Blue Crack Addict
I'd like to ask what to me is kind of a sensitive question. First of all, this is NOT what I believe or say. OK, recently I've noticed a lot of people have the attitude that so many people are dying of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in places like sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia because "there are just too many people in the world and this is God's/natural selections (take your pick) way of evening out our global population." It's hard for me to convince them otherwise when I'm coming at this issue from a social justice standpoint and they're coming at this issue so objectively, just treated people as a number or statistic. My question is, is there any credible research or data out there that suggests that this claim is true? Anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, whatever are not in my area of study so I don't know where to even look. I'm interested in knowing if this argument has any credibility to it. Are there just too many people in the world? Are these pandemics any worse/different than ones the world has previously experienced? Believe me, even the answers support the theory of natural selection, I still believe we have a moral responsibility for what goes on in this world, I'd just like to know if their argument is rooted in fact or in ignorance and apathy.