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If people stopped having kids every time there was a famine, there'd be nobody here. History is littered with war, disease, and famine, and yet people have been born throughout it. Maybe it wouldn't have seemed a good idea to have kids during the cold war (impending nuclear apocalypse), the spanish flu, WW2, the dustbowl, the great leap forward, the civil war, various genocides of the past century, etc.

And yet, in most cases, the survivors and descendants are better off, not worse off, than the people of the time.