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Your problem is that you're focusing on the last ~200 years and only on countries that have successfully managed to avoid their populations outgrowing technolog
by old-gregg 18y ago
Your problem is that you're focusing on the last ~200 years and only on countries that have successfully managed to avoid their populations outgrowing technological progress.
There have been many societies on this planet, and some of them have collapsed after peaking precisely because of population explosion due to "good times". Isolated collapses of ancient polynesian peoples have been studied particularly well.
- elviejo 18y agoIn his recent letter Bill Gates has this graph that shows the correlatin between better health and less children for a family. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/2009-preventing-childhood-deaths.aspx http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/2009-prev... (chart 3) Bill G. explained that in the begining his foundation was focused on population control. But when they discovered that the single most important factor in population was health is when they started to focus in the most crucial sickness. His explanation is that parents simply try to optimize to have two children that can take care of them when they are old.