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A lot of the response in India regarding overpopulation came about during the 1970s, when the Prime Minister's son, worried about overpopulation, started a Comp
by xNeil 3y ago
A lot of the response in India regarding overpopulation came about during the 1970s, when the Prime Minister's son, worried about overpopulation, started a Compulsory Sterilisation Program, the horrors off which I have heard a lot about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi#Compulsory_sterilization_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi#Compulsory_steri...
- j-bos 3y agoScott Alexander had an interesting article about the mind and incentives behind those sterilizations. Section 2 delves into the topic: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/galton-ehrlich-buck https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/galton-ehrlich-buck
- xNeil 3y agoThank you very, very much for the link sir! Learnt a whole lot from it.