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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by adolph on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:40AM (#32651057)
> The government is too scared to put in place efficient 'family planning', Pakistan being one of the most religious country in the world.

How do you know that Pakistan's 'family planning' is not focused on increasing instead of decreasing the population?

What about religion in Pakistan is incompatible with 'family planning?'

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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by plasticchris on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:46AM (#32651117)
Family planning usually means birth control and or abortion access and religions usually oppose this as it leads to fewer followers.
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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by adolph on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:11AM (#32651409)
Point being that there isn't evidence that Pakistan:

* doesn't see 'family planning' as increasing population

* has religious traditions incompatible with any interpretation of 'family planning'

If Pakistan has a strongly increasing population then it will be in good position to take advantage of depopulation in China and elsewhere.

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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by nfca on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @02:16PM (#32653350)
It isn't quite "religion" as much as it is vast numbers of the poorly educated population using "religion" to support their highly conservative views. Religions, including the dominant one in Pakistan, have a component of social responsibility.

Pakistan too has a trend of decreasing birth rate with increasing economic power across the economic classes of people, even though all ascribe to the same religion.

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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by adolph on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:10PM (#32655108)
> Religions, including the dominant one in Pakistan, have a component of social responsibility.

Is 'family planning' not socially responsible?

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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by tsol on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:42PM (#32656092)
Such a weird and untrue statement. Birth control is allowed in Islam. Maybe they don't trust them because of cases like the one where the CIA ran a fake vaccine program in order to collect DNA to help catch Bin Laden[0]. Or maybe it's because there isn't widespread access to healthcare. Or one of the other factors you are totally ignorant to

0- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277145-cias-hunt-for-o...

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