'''Population control''' represents any of several approaches to managing the [[population]] growth rate of [[human]]s. The driver for efforts at population control is concern that levels of population sustainability are rapidly being approached. Some consider this concern to be a [[liberal]] [[socialist]] [[myth]]. Due to criticism, the myth promoters have adapted their position with a new ideological term. Population control has been changed to the wide promotion of 'reproductive health'. The mainstream [[media]] have heavily promoted the consequences surrounding "overpopulation" and "excessive" population growth.
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'''Population control''' means reducing the human population of the earth, in favor of other species or to promote political or ideological goals (see [[eugenics]]).
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[[Jacques Cousteau]] told an interviewer:
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* What should we do to eliminate suffering and disease? It's a wonderful idea but perhaps not altogether a beneficial one in the long run. If we try to implement it we may jeopardize the future of our species. It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that '''we must eliminate 350,000 people per day'''. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable." (emphasis added for this article)
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In general, population control represents any of several approaches to managing the [[population]] growth rate of [[human]]s. The driver for efforts at population control is concern that levels of population sustainability are rapidly being approached. Some consider this concern to be a [[liberal]] [[socialist]] [[myth]]. Due to criticism, the myth promoters have adapted their position with a new ideological term. Population control has been changed to the wide promotion of 'reproductive health'. The mainstream [[media]] have heavily promoted the consequences surrounding "overpopulation" and "excessive" population growth.