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> reel in the global population size What does this mean? Forced sterilization? One-child policies? I don't ask this to be confrontational, but because it's
by mises 7y ago
> reel in the global population size
What does this mean? Forced sterilization? One-child policies? I don't ask this to be confrontational, but because it's a difficult question and I honestly want to hear opinions. Access to contraception doesn't make a difference when the culture still says you have 8 kids. This is borne out by what has happened: continued growth of the third-world population. T
- cagenut 7y agowatch these two videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vjGSiRGKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vjGSiRGKY (17m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXlJEcrinwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXlJEcrinwg (13m) the short version is "global feminism"
- sergiotapia 7y agoLMAO
- foxylad 7y agoBy far the most effective measure is to educate and empower women.
- usrusr 7y agoOne thing to do is to consistently shout down voices who routinely fall back into the outdated "population growth is good because we need it for my comfortable pyramid-powered pension" argument, not realizing how much it is at odds with whatever environmentalist views they might also hold. And even if they are convinced "fuck the planetists": the old trick of deriving comfort from growth will stop working at one point, and the only open question is how close we are already or maybe even beyond.
- dooglius 7y agoNo, it means drastically reduce the population size; the implementation of this is orthogonal to the point.
- your-nanny 7y agoSome numbers and sources would be nice. I suspect that the availability of contraception is being over estimated. Even in Poland I had Catholic hardliner pharmacists refuse to sell me morning after pills, and in some cases, regular birth control pills. In any case, availability of contraceptives just gives people choices, and what people choose depends on lots of things, economic and otherwise.