ABSTRACT
Many socialists, communists and Greens quote Engels and Marx, but conveniently forget Engels wise words about the dreadful consequences of extra-large cities. In the West, environmental groups are now actively trying to change centuries-old practices with regard to cemeteries because the fluids from decaying corpses are polluting the water table. Employment opportunities are abysmal, and beyond that the poorer countries also have the world's worst environmental problems. The dual effect of mismanagement of resources and of population explosion sees to it that other oil-producing countries, too, have been confronted by an energy squeeze, including power shortages. South Korea is now heading towards 110 newborn males for 100 newborn girls still an imbalance but not as bad as Chinas. The old mindset with its preference for making children has now combined with modern medical technology that makes it easier to predict and abort unborn girls, wrote Anuradha Rajivan, the lead author of a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report.
