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Letter: Population control

Published 22 April 2009

From Neil Fairweather

Tracy Chandler (28 March, p 24) says that the way to ensure that your children don’t starve to death is not to have so many. Unfortunately, this will not work. The way to ensure that your children don’t starve to death is to make sure everyone else doesn’t have so many. This is the epitome of the Tragedy of the Commons.

Risley, Warrington, UK

Issue no. 2705 published 25 April 2009

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