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Because world population is already forecast to peak and then decline over the next few decades, economic development has already "done something" about this is
by spiralx 8y ago
Because world population is already forecast to peak and then decline over the next few decades, economic development has already "done something" about this issue, unless you're proposing mass murder or something equally implausible.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoWould paying people in countries with high birth rates to not have children be exploitative?
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- ufmace 8y agoI would guess that a lot of the sub-populations with the highest birthrates are disconnected enough from the global economy for money to be meaningless for them.
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- jfk13 8y agoIndia tried that, more or less, during Indira Gandhi's "Emergency"; a stereotypical example was offering a transistor radio as reward for a vasectomy, though that's extremely mild persuasion in comparison to some of what went on. The episode is not favourably looked on, in general. https://www.pop.org/a-once-and-future-tragedy-indias-sterilization-campaign-39-years-later/ https://www.pop.org/a-once-and-future-tragedy-indias-sterili...