I'm keen on less people in the world, and yes, I am prepared for that to perhaps mean and mine - though obviously I'd rather it wasn't :-).
I hate crowds, I hate too many people, so any not-drastically-destabilising population reductions can be seen as desirable from that point of view.
Of course stick real starving people in front of me and I suspect I'd be moved to try to sort it out if I at all could (and by longer term strategies rather than short term fixes).
Is I recall, the evidence is that if you remove the worry that your kids will die off young and give access to decent contraception (especially if it can be of the long term and 'hidden' i.e. female controlled) and education then birth rates plummet. So I suppose patience is the key...
I was just saying to is_not_well that if you put a starving kid in front of me, then yes, I'd feed it, but, as in my reply to anton_p_nym above, at that point you've resolved the geographic issues of person needing food and the food itself being in different places so that person is then sustainable.
Totally agree with the comment on infant mortality, education and contraception. Improve the chances that two kids will survive to adulthood from two born rather than two survivors from 10 born and you drastically reduce the resources consumed to get two more adults.
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I hate crowds, I hate too many people, so any not-drastically-destabilising population reductions can be seen as desirable from that point of view.
Of course stick real starving people in front of me and I suspect I'd be moved to try to sort it out if I at all could (and by longer term strategies rather than short term fixes).
Is I recall, the evidence is that if you remove the worry that your kids will die off young and give access to decent contraception (especially if it can be of the long term and 'hidden' i.e. female controlled) and education then birth rates plummet. So I suppose patience is the key...
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Totally agree with the comment on infant mortality, education and contraception. Improve the chances that two kids will survive to adulthood from two born rather than two survivors from 10 born and you drastically reduce the resources consumed to get two more adults.