Re:Australia could become first country to eradicate cervica...
by pjc50 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:21AM
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It definitely works that way in poor countries; the "poster child" is right next to India in Bangladesh: https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21565617-bangladesh-...
It turns out that educated women with more other options almost always want to have fewer children. This should not be surprising; they don't call childbirth "labour" for nothing.
Re:Australia could become first country to eradicate cervica...
by brownbat on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:04AM
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Hans Rosling tackles that question better than anyone in What Stops Population Growth: https://youtu.be/ZnexjTCBksw
His first TED talk on the best data you've ever seen is also worth watching.
It's an important question, but our understanding of what causes population spikes, and how people respond to improved wealth and health in a country, can make us a little more optimistic.
Re:Australia could become first country to eradicate cervica...
by te_chris on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @05:35AM
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I don't have stats for this, but I don't think it's families with 2 kids that are causing a population explosion. That's literally just an even replacement for the parents (assuming 2 people who don't remarry before death).
> how vaccines and tech are decreasing population.
If it is statistically and empirically true, then it probably is true.If people smarter than me by any measure agree with it, then it probably is true after,all.
That said:
I don't doubt that, it works in a first world nation. But third world , at least India is a different thing, people like to have two kids around here, because it looks whole some. It doesn't matter what the financial situation is , people like to have at least two kids in India(I don't have any metric for it,just a casual observation). What if people see their kids don't die out of diseases and could take food ,education,electricity,clean water and clean air and a good public transport for granted and now want to make more babies? The decrease of population if you pump these resources seems counter intuitive to me. I am not suggesting if Bill Gates should pull out of Africa, I am just not getting the logic here.