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That's just not true, as UN stated last month. Population, particularly in Africa, is growing instead of stabilizing. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article
by alecco 12y ago
That's just not true, as UN stated last month. Population, particularly in Africa, is growing instead of stabilizing.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-population-will-soar-higher-than-predicted/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-population-w...
Vaccines without sex education and birth control support programs are extremely irresponsible. We need both, just one is trading off a short term problem for a bigger long term problem.
- endemic 12y agoIsn't that because infant mortality is still a problem in Africa? i.e. more children are born because the parents don't know how many will survive.
- Guvante 12y ago> Vaccines without sex education and birth control support programs are extremely irresponsible Are you sure there is no correlation between mortality and fertility rates? Assuming there is (which lots of evidence points to) there isn't actually any problem.
- IkmoIkmo 12y agoWhat is not true? He said fertility rates decrease, he didn't say fertility rates dropped below what is called 'sub replacement fertility' (which is when e.g. a man and a woman have 1 child on average, meaning every generation the population halves.) His statement is perfectly true if say rates dropped from 5 to 4. That still causes a growing population, but the growth rates are decreasing. Once a country gets rich enough, you usually see fertility rates drop below SRF. In fact, in Europe for example it's around 1.6, while you need roughly 2.1 or so children per woman to sustain population levels.