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>Many decades back there was scaremongering .... I can't wrap my head around the fact how people did and still dismiss this as scaremongering. On a site like
by 1ris 8y ago
>Many decades back there was scaremongering ....
I can't wrap my head around the fact how people did and still dismiss this as scaremongering. On a site like HN, non less, where most people should know the properties of exponential growth.
I mean, how much fantasy, how much wishfull thinking and how much ignorance is needed to not see this ending in catastrophe?
Sorry if this is insulting. I have no other way to express it. Just what makes you think it isn't a absolute massive problem, and isn't the root of most of humanities problems?
- calvinbhai 8y agoAre you saying that [population explosion was a real problem] so it was right for the countries to [fix the problem in the short term, even if it leads to skewed gender ratios]? If so, I think we clearly disagree what should have been done during those decades. If the western countries (primarily the colonizers and the US) came up with good foreign policies that truly worked for the upliftment of China and India, instead of shortsighted approach of providing ultrasound tech, probably those countries may have been a better place, in terms of gender ratio, and probably, world would have more Indians and Chinese. But it'd have slowed down the growth on its own.