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Re:Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the cl... by JackFr on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:07PM (#24295052)
Overpopulation is not an issue.

In practice, the most effective route to limiting population growth has been shown to be making people rich.

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Re:Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the cl... by bloak on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:36PM (#24297002)
I think it's education and urbanisation that most directly reduce the population growth. Those are linked to people getting richer.
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Re:Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the cl... by when_creaks on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:15PM (#24295166)
+1

As societies become more wealthy fertility rate tends to drop below replacement levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

Quote: "The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or social stratum, the fewer children are born in any industrialized country"

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