Much of this report is obvious to the point of boring, and it was one small part of it that seemed so nonsensical that it ‘went viral’: higher living standards

Much of this report is obvious to the point of boring, and it was one small part of it that seemed so nonsensical that it ‘went viral’: higher living standards and lower infant mortality actually decreases population. Beguiling as much for it’s feel-good hopefulness as it is for its lack of testability, it’s become a new sort of religion in the new liberal world order. These charts tell me nothing but correlation, no causality, no indication whatsoever that any direct aid strategy has accelerated this trend, or had a differential effect on individuals. But we certainly have tried this experiment. Some areas got food, medicine, clothing, shelter, money, etc to improve living standards. Others didn’t. So tell me, which areas had higher population growth?