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large family size
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Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]>
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Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:13:43 +1100
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Figures I heard the other day from a friend in development work were that
the average Australian uses 70 times the resources of the average African
and the Average American uses 170 times the resources of the average
African.

> Whenever people start talking about "those people" or even "those people
> over there" who have so many kids, I gently remind them that one (1)
person
> in the US uses, on average, the same amount of the world's resources as
> thirty (30) people living in a Third World country.
>

Karleen Gribble
Australia

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