[0xd171]

Isn't your reasoning backwards?

We know that improvements in living conditions lead to reduced fertility. And climate change will worsen living conditions, not improve them. So if areas with poor living conditions have high fertility now, why would even worse conditions (due to climate change) reduce their fertility? Sure, the outcomes and quality of life of the children will be even worse than it is but I can't see how that will impact rates of reproduction.

[adrianN]

Sufficiently bad conditions lead to children starving and women not surviving labor.

[sadris]

In bad conditions humans breed more. There was a ten year famine in Ethiopia yet there wasn't a single year in which the population actually dropped. People stop breeding when they know their offspring will survive