| Life-Saving Technology |
To the pseudoenvironmentalists, each new human being is another Earth-destroying demon - except, of course, the superior elite group to which they and other special people like them belong. Therefore, data like that in Figures 2 and 3 is further evidence of technological evil.
These figures are reproduced from "The Lost Children'' by Peter Brimelow,
Forbes, December 29, 1997, p 47. In the United States since 1700, infant mortality has dropped from 20% to 0.7% while deaths of pregnant women have dropped from 3.3% of live births to 0.007%. As recently as 1940, one in 300 pregnant women died. Now fewer than one in 10,000 dies. These accomplishments - the prevention of 96.4% of infant deaths and 99.8% of maternal deaths as compared with 1700 - are entirely the result of technological progress and the energy supply system upon which that progress depends.These wonderful improvements in the quality and quantity of human life do not just happen because, in some special way, the people of the 20th Century are entitled to them. They are not provided by government. They are provided solely by advances in science and technology - the same science and technology that has doubled the average human life span. Nor are they the products of "post industrial'' activities brought to us by the "information'' economy.
Industrial infrastuctures - food, steel and concrete, roads, bridges, dams, factories of all sorts - underlie the medical industries and the hygiene and nutrition industries that save these lives. All of these industries depend upon energy - the energy that Al Gore and his gaggle of "population reduction'' retainers seek to confiscate by rationing.
