Poll of the Day > You know the strategies for population control in China...

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Should they be implemented in India?
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No need. Population sizes self regulate, you just have to give it some time. And the best way to actually control a population is to provide better education and provide health services to lower infant/child mortality rates so that people dont feel like they need to have five kids so that one or two will be all that makes it to adulthood.
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They shouldn't have been implemented in China. They resulted in forced abortions at best and baby murder at worst.
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What's the problem? Obviously their economy can handle their population... since if it can't, people tend to die off from being poor.
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Basically you're asking should policies that didn't really work in China be implemented in India? >_>
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Mead is right. Standard of living goes up, people are smarter and more materialistic and dont want to be broke again.

There is an imbalance of men to women in China and India.
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India's problems really aren't population-based anyway, as much as they are coordination of infrastructure and the slow industrialization process. Even successful population control systems (which China's very much weren't) wouldn't necessarily help them much.

At any rate, we're slowly approaching the point where the biggest asset for future nations is going to be population size (like it's been for most of human history). Once "third world" nations industrialize to the point of parity (which China has mostly already done and which India is doing), having the larger population pool is going to be the key to global socio-economic power, so they'd almost be better off not trying to curb population at all.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

At any rate, we're slowly approaching the point where the biggest asset for future nations is going to be population size (like it's been for most of human history). Once "third world" nations industrialize to the point of parity (which China has mostly already done and which India is doing), having the larger population pool is going to be the key to global socio-economic power, so they'd almost be better off not trying to curb population at all.

How do you figure? I would think that increased automation would actually lower the societal value of large populations
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HornedLion posted...

Should they be implemented in India?

They tried that already

They sent a truck with medical personal to a poor village to perform vasectomies on the men.

The village killed them.
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Both China and India have 1.3B people.

Difference is that China is way bigger than India.

So... India needs No Nut November more than China if you ask me. And although friends that have gone to China to teach have told me of the issues of the country, they pale in comparison to that in India.

I mean, at what point does their problem become our problem, is what Im saying.
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