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As you roll back the calendar, when in human history has lower population meant less per-capita hunger in the world?
by crusso 13y ago
As you roll back the calendar, when in human history has lower population meant less per-capita hunger in the world?
- mullingitover 13y agoAllow me to correct myself: s/overpopulation/high birth rates/g Look at a map showing the countries with the highest birth rates, and overlay it with a map showing the countries with the highest rates of hunger. You won't find a lot of difference between the two.
- jacalata 13y agoYou're making a pretty classic correlation/causation error here. I'm pretty sure that high child mortality and low economic prospects (e.g; conditions where many people are hungry) are considered to cause high birthrates, as the parents attempt to maximise their chances of having some offspring to look after them in their old age.
- mullingitover 13y agoThe cause of the hunger is the simple problem of too many mouths to feed. The cause of too many mouths to feed is that infant mortality drops precipitously with the introduction of modern medicine, while family planning is a foreign concept or worse, actively demonized by the very missionaries who bring the aforementioned modern medicine.
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