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If it is not sustainable, this saving of a billion lives might have come at the expense of killing several billions of future lives.
by Tichy 13y ago
If it is not sustainable, this saving of a billion lives might have come at the expense of killing several billions of future lives.
- philwelch 13y agoMeanwhile, economic development leads to dropping birth rates. The entire first world is below replacement birth rate. So it's not a Malthusian catastrophe, it's just a question of increasing yields and developing the rest of the world into a higher standard of living before we run out of runway.
- Tichy 13y agoDo you know why ecvonomic development leads to dropping birth rates? Is thast really a law of nature? And what if economic development doesdn-'t keep up?