>> We seem to have stumbled over the solution to overpopulation. Wealth. > I'd be careful about drawing that conclusion. Right reason wrong conclusion. Look at

>> We seem to have stumbled over the solution to overpopulation. Wealth. > I'd be careful about drawing that conclusion. Right reason wrong conclusion. Look at the living standards of people in EU. People are educated enough to know a childbirth is huge financial burden. When both people in a couple work and barely can afford a living the only way they get a child is to have an accident and they are religious enough to not have an abortion. Poor people back in the day did not have tools to prevent babies. Or did not care as children were treated... more liberally. Wealth or rather lack of it, combined with contraception and basic financial understanding make for no babies. Its not a rocket science. A point to support it. There was a credit union in US whos CEO made a snap decision and gave everyone 75k base salary (10yrs ago or so) a follow-up with employees... house ownership through the roof people have babies and are more productive (to no-one's surprise except other CEOs and economists)