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Gates has actually addressed this specific line of thought. He originally spent a lot of time looking at birth control before switching to vaccination. --- "I
by andrewfong 13y ago
Gates has actually addressed this specific line of thought. He originally spent a lot of time looking at birth control before switching to vaccination.
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"In society after society, he saw, when the mortality rate falls—specifically, below 10 deaths per 1,000 people—the birth rate follows, and population growth stabilizes. “It goes against common sense,” Gates says. Most parents don’t choose to have eight children because they want to have big families, it turns out, but because they know many of their children will die.
“If a mother and father know their child is going to live to adulthood, they start to naturally reduce their population size,” says Melinda.
In terms of giving, Gates did a 180-degree turn. Rather than prevent births, he would aim his billions at saving the kids already born. “We moved pretty heavily into vaccines once we understood that,” says Gates.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-second-coming-of-bill-gates/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-sec...