Global Q&A: ‘Do you think your country should do something about world population growth?’

Ron DeCristoforo, 60, Artist, Walnut Creek, California, United States: I don’t know how much they [U.S. government] are doing. They should be involved, definitely. There is already too many coming in, illegally, here to this state. Medicine—who’s going to pay for medicine? There should be more living conditions in Mexico, [and] Africa, so that they stay there and don’t come here. … We should allow them to have work in their countries. (The Epoch Times)

Some countries where the birth rate is low encourage citizens to have more children, some provide aid or refuge to overpopulated regions—but as a global body, overpopulation could one day affect us all. Epoch Times reporters from Australia to Sweden asked locals:

“Do you think your country should do something about world population growth?”

 

Look for the Global Q&A column every week. Epoch Times correspondents interview people around the world to learn about their lives and perspectives on local and global realities. Next week’s global question, “Do you think playing with toy guns teaches children to be violent?”