Re:China to begin two-child policy
by jdavis703 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:05PM
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The kinds of socio-economic figures measured by NGOs like per capita GDP and infant mortality and life expectancy. If you increase GDP you can give your people healthier/better lives.
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Re:China to begin two-child policy
by toomuchtodo on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:17PM
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> If you increase GDP you can give your people healthier/better lives.
Sort of. You'll still bump up against physical system constraints, at least until we're swimming in an excess of renewable, clean energy.
It would take many Earth's worth of resources to have the quality of life American's have. Clean energy goes a long way to solving that, but again, physical systems have limitations.