Overseas aid
Sir,—The world’s people are using wood, for firewood, timber and paper pulp, much faster than it is growing. How this very urgent problem can be solved is not clear, but trying to slow down the population increase of an extra billion people every 11 or 12 years must be part of any answer. Mr Aziz's former country, Pakistan, has a high birthrate (41 per thousand) which will double the country’s large population in 20 years. It already has millions of landless labourers whose poverty will worsen until more affluent males stop opposing birth control. Tony Banks wants “more comprehensive” aid and praises New Zealand’s aid to Vanuatu, but he can be sure that help, like New Zealand’s longterm aid to Samoa, carefully left out any concern about high birthrates. Such aid will never cure poverty, or save our precious earth’s ecology.—Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. June 12, 1989.
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