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“Directly addressing that fundamental problem”… what did you have in mind?
by zztop44 3y ago
“Directly addressing that fundamental problem”… what did you have in mind?
- p-e-w 3y agoUmm... promoting family planning instead of stigmatizing it? It's not exactly rocket science.
- flir 3y agoRaise living standards, decrease child mortality and wait two generations. It worked for the first world. (This is, as I understand it, a very basic summary of Bill Gates' approach).
- vidarh 3y agoIt's working everywhere. India dropped below replacement fertility a couple of years ago. The only part of the world left with above replacement growth is sub-Saharan Africa, and even the very highest, like Niger, has seen substantial drops in fertility rates. If anything we're a few decades away from a rising panic about increasing them again.