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All well and good, but thecountries of Africa are 't the problem. They're not the ones consuming resources disproportionately to their populations. Is populati
by chiefalchemist 5y ago
All well and good, but thecountries of Africa are 't the problem. They're not the ones consuming resources disproportionately to their populations.
Is population an issue? Yes, probably. But it's (Western) (over) consumption that got us here, and continues to escalate the crisis.
The less distractions for that, the better.
- triceratops 5y agoI'm not disputing anything you're saying. My response, a rebuttal to "we need to focus on population reduction", was about 2 things: 1. Countries with high population growth numbers do, in fact, focus on bringing those numbers down. China and India have had widespread family planning programs for decades and those have borne fruit. 2. The country with the highest per-capita consumption in the world conditions a lot of its foreign aid on recipients not promoting family planning. Meanwhile, Internet commenters from that country grumble about poor countries' population numbers.