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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by dragonwriter on Monday June 01, 2015 @01:36PM (#9640567)
> Basically, it turns out that your population explodes when you're very poor, but then stabilizes and even shrinks as your society gets richer and richer.

IIRC, "strong social support network" is more accurate than "richer" as to the factor that reduces natural growth rate.

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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by ams6110 on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:04PM (#9640791)
A strong social support network is impossible without a rich society.
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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by dragonwriter on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:06PM (#9640803)
Neither of these is a binary category; countries can be richer than other countries but have a weaker social support system (the US, compared to many other developed countries, is a good example -- it also, has a higher natural population growth rate than many of those poorer-but-with-stronger-social-support countries.)
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