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Topic	what do you think of people who claim there's too many people on earth?
bulbinking 10/09/19 2:13:51 PM #40:	_AdjI_ posted... Explosive population growth in developing countries is usually a consequence of the fact that it takes time for cultures to catch up to the fact that their infant mortality rate has gone down. When infant mortality rates are high, you need to keep pumping out kids to have any chance of having a couple reach adulthood. When infant mortality rates go down, you get a period of explosive growth because people keep having the same number of kids, but those kids actually survive. That growth naturally slows down within a generation or two. Sure, it'd be nice if birth rates could reduce at the same time as infant mortality rates, for more controlled population growth, but that's just not a realistic expectation. Somebody who watched 8 of their 10 siblings die before puberty (and similar rates among all their friends and extended family) isn't going to immediately be okay with only having 2-3 kids just because some doctor says those kids probably won't die. You need a couple generations of people experiencing those lower mortality rates for themselves. Or maybe we let them figure it out themselves like the prime directive in star trek and save the environment along with our pocketbooks while handing these people back their own autonomy? --- Qc_Stryder 5/21/2015 6:58:09 AM posted... Mods- Protectors of feelings 3DS 5370-0410-4945 <cite>bulbinking posted [p:928550150] in what do yo... [t:78071593]...</cite> <quote>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote>Explosive population growth in developing countries is usually a consequence of the fact that it takes time for cultures to catch up to the fact that their infant mortality rate has gone down. When infant mortality rates are high, you need to keep pumping out kids to have any chance of having a couple reach adulthood. When infant mortality rates go down, you get a period of explosive growth because people keep having the same number of kids, but those kids actually survive. That growth naturally slows down within a generation or two. Sure, it'd be nice if birth rates could reduce at the same time as infant mortality rates, for more controlled population growth, but that's just not a realistic expectation. Somebody who watched 8 of their 10 siblings die before puberty (and similar rates among all their friends and extended family) isn't going to immediately be okay with only having 2-3 kids just because some doctor says those kids probably won't die. You need a couple generations of people experiencing those lower mortality rates for themselves.</quote> Or maybe we let them figure it out themselves like the prime directive in star trek and save the environment along with our pocketbooks while handing these people back their own autonomy? --- Qc_Stryder 5/21/2015 6:58:09 AM posted... Mods- Protectors of feelings 3DS 5370-0410-4945</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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