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> Lowering birth rates are correlated with more education and income. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/09/22/africas-high-birth-rate-is-ke
by Pristina 8y ago
> Lowering birth rates are correlated with more education and income.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/09/22/africas-high-birth-rate-is-keeping-the-continent-poor https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/09/22/...
the effect is much less for Africans.
also how can people consider high birth rate to be bad while not being an anti-natalist. Why the cognitive dissonance?
- lotsofpulp 8y agoWhy assume cognitive dissonance? It’s possible that there exists a birth rate at which population increases too much or too quickly for the environment to handle (peacefully at least). It’s possible to want your own tribe to expand, but not others’.