Equilibrium on Earth
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In many countries, the size of the population exceeds the resources to sustain it, and workers in these poverty-stricken nations gladly work for a fraction of their U.S. counterparts. Will the United States be exporting jobs and importing people until the standard of living between the U.S. and the Third World is equalized?
Ralph Meyer
Santa Monica
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