Environment There Could Be No Article

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In other industrialized countries, however, like Germany, Italy and Japan, the main concern of governments today is that not enough children are being born to even reach the level of the replacement rate. This is almost certainly a mistake since reduction of population should be the main goal in order to save the planet, and additional middle-class consumers in Western nations are the greatest burden on the environment.

Encouragement of voluntary euthanasia will be another method of reducing the excess population. Today many billions of dollars are spent on the last thirty days of life and 65% of physicians and nurses in one survey admitted that had provided unnecessary treatments for the terminally ill. That statistic was mentioned frequently in the debates over health care reform, with the implication that those dollars would be better spent on medical care for younger and healthier people at the start of their productive lives. Elderly and terminally ill people who regard themselves as a burden or who are unable to pay for medical care may indeed choose suicide as an option, and perhaps the time will come in the future when various medical, psychiatric and bureaucratic 'specialists' will encourage them in that decision. This will free up valuable resources for those who are not elderly or terminally ill.

Finally, the world is going to have to develop new types of energy and propulsion systems in the future that do not pollute the environment.
This means more state support for solar and wind power, of course, and research into even more exotic types of energy, such as nuclear fusion or antimatter. The space program, on both the military and civilian sides, should be encouraged and supported in this research, including new types of fuels that may not even be available on earth but only on other planets in the solar system. Unfortunately, none of these other planets seem particularly suitable for human habitation, although it is possible that Mars might be transformed into a more livable environment in the centuries ahead. That is yet another reason to encourage research and development in outer space, to prepare for the day when earth might no longer have a suitable environment and at least some of humanity can be salvaged by moving it off-world. In the meantime, though, the best hope will be more radical and extensive use of population and consumption control measures, including euthanasia, sterilization and abortion, as well as one-child-per-family policies, or even giving rewards and subsidies to no-child families. To save the planet from extinction, all this will have to be done, in spite of religious and ethical objections.

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