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I'm familiar with the problem. The question is, what is the solution?
by yosito 5y ago
I'm familiar with the problem. The question is, what is the solution?
- zelphirkalt 5y agoDoing everything we can, including birth limitations and laws, to not get there. I recently heard about China stopping the one-child law stuff and I only wanted to facepalm. That's so typical. "We need more population for all our old people here!" disregarding what will happen with the planet (an objectively much more important thing than China, but hey, it's not China, so not their problem, right?!), if population surges again in China. I just hope, that the experts are correct and that it will not lead to another population increase.
- neverminder 5y agoChina is bad, but it's not the main problem, Africa is. Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing. Africa will be the last nail in this particular cofin.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoEmpower women. That is a proven path to reducing the fertility rate, even if direct cash transfers to women are necessary to more rapidly provide the autonomy and empowerment that would naturally occur through industrialization. https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-change-in-the-number-of-children-women-have https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
- neverminder 5y agoSure, western women have been empowered so much so that birth rates have been below replacement for ages now. So this idea has some major problems. First, it will take too long - cultural changes take decades. Second, you won't be able to stop this particular snowball once it picks up momentum as is evident from the west.
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- Glavnokoman 5y agoYep. Women education is the only thing with proven negative correlation to birth rate. That's why apart from WWF I only donate to women education in Africa.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoAny charities in particular you’d recommend?