[shams93]

The Philippines are catholic so birth control might actually be illegal, if the Catholic Church is concerned about the environment they need to promote birth control not present it as a cardinal sin. Countries like this the pope holds a heck of a lot of sway. He talks a good game about global warming but here is where the rubber meets the road. For the sake of the common good they need to shift the focus of sin from sex to wrecking the environment and causing overpopulation.

[candiodari]

And what is the solution given that these people exist ? Because undoing that seems immoral now, even by non-catholic standards.

I mean the best interpretation of your comment is wishing for an alternate world (in which millions of people would never have been alive in the first place). In the middle the comment is assigning blame for that. At worst ...

I get that dozens of millions of people not being alive would solve your problem ... but I do hope you understand that nobody, especially not those few dozen millions, agree. And that does mean that you'll have to come with a different solution.

[jackvalentine]

He’s talking about the millions of people not yet born.

When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging.

[candiodari]

And what will happen to the country and the economy that sustains them if they "stop digging" ?

[jackvalentine]

We'll have to figure that out, won't we? The Philippines birth rate is somewhere in the vicinity of 3 children per woman. What's a more sustainable number?

[candiodari]

Economically, to take care of those ?

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[jackvalentine]

How did you come to that number and why do you think a double the replacement birth-rate can be sustained forever?