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The best way to reduce human fertility (without child abandonment and forced abortions and other human rights horrors) is to educate the population and make the
by api 13y ago
The best way to reduce human fertility (without child abandonment and forced abortions and other human rights horrors) is to educate the population and make them wealthy... at least to somewhat middle class standards. Then fertility drops to replacement level or near it, sometimes even below. This has been validated countless times in many cultures and seems to be a general pattern in human behavior.
China is slowly doing this, and will do so better if it can get its political corruption issues under control.
China's pollution is definitely a problem, but that stems mostly from corruption, lack of concern, and heavy industry that is largely done in service to customers not in China. The one child policy would not impact this much.
- toyg 13y agoThe problem with the "natural" approach is that then you have to deal with 1) natural increase in life expectancy, and 2) immigration. Because of this, most European countries are still growing, albeit slowly. Japan has all but removed factor 2 and so its population is overall stable, but they're experiencing a slow shrinking of their working population (which brings a lot of economic problems).
- cm2012 13y agoChina is currently far below replacement rate: https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility&oq=china+fertility&aqs=chrome..69i57.3233j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=china+fertility+rate https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility&oq=china+fer...
- kalleboo 13y agoThey're slowly educating the population and making them wealthy, not slowly lowering the reproduction rate. The reproduction rate is low due to the one child policy. I imagine when the policy is dropped it may spike.
- ck2 13y agoThe Romneys are some of the wealthiest people in the US and fairly well educated and their immediate family has something close to 20 children total.