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Except you only need to look at a large number of countries with high populations (and often those with high fertility rates) and see little correlation with ab
by wizofaus 4y ago
Except you only need to look at a large number of countries with high populations (and often those with high fertility rates) and see little correlation with ability to achieve what you call "amazing things".
A billion people with good access to necessary resources is going to achieve more than 10 billion living in poverty because we've largely trashed our planet's ability to support us.
- Dig1t 4y agoA counterpoint: some of the biggest and best advances in the developed world occurred during or after a time of high fertility. The boomer generation is a good example. I'm not a boomer (I'm < 30), they get a lot of hate, but that generation basically invented the entirety of the modern world, without which we wouldn't even have the tools to understand climate change. If you want to achieve great things you need people to exist and do the work. Examples of high fertility rates combined with poverty are often correlated with dictatorships and corruption, in my opinion they are cultural.