Malaria, cholera and dysentery kill millions in the undeveloped nations of the world. In their view, it's actually a benefit when people die - the more the merrier. Certainly, it is better that the great unwashed masses die off - leaving the planet and its' resources to the infinitely more qualified and more deserving environmentalists. They should die, then, and decrease the surplus population, as Scrooge so memorably said in Dickens' Christmas Carol . Charles Dickens wrote it to illustrate the meanness and emptiness of Scrooge's soul.
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