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by bravo22
3744 days ago
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I agree with GBI for the interim, but one thing everyone is forgetting is that we're resource bound as a race. GBI will deal with the distribution issue but not overall consumption. And I hate to say it but the more prosperous the average family becomes, i.e. less death and hunger, the faster the overall population will grow. At the same time the faster technology grows the less need we'll have for average person to work. The environmental problems we are experiencing are mostly an issue of our population relative to the environment. Ultimately there needs to be a population control/reduction mechanism. It won't be easy, pretty, or likely even ethical but it will happen and it will be a source of great conflict. The alternative is we end up space ferrying before that happens. |
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All statistics point to the opposite. Education and higher income correlate with lower number of children.
In countries like India, the educated middle and upper classes have a very low birth rate -- most families have 1 or 2 kids. It usually the poor and uneducated families that have the most kids.
Most developed countries also have a birth rate that is below replacement. As people get more educated, the human population (for whatever reason) seems to be at risk of collapse / rapid shrinkage.
I don't know why educated people chose to have less kids, but that is what the statistics are telling us.