[mschuster91]

> Population management is a bigger part of the solution than pipes and dams.

"Population management" is a road leading straight to ethical catastrophes, to murder and other horrible forms of suffering. There have been many of these - genocides, "Lebensraum im Osten" aka Nazi Germany invading Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, China's "1 child policy".

The best way a society can handle population management is fact-based sex education and safe, cheap access to contraceptives and medical abortion, and general access to healthcare and a social security network so that people don't have to have half a dozen children if they want one or two to survive to adulthood and care for them at old age.

[matthewdgreen]

Are you sure you’re disagreeing with the parent poster? It sounds to me like you’ve just outlined a plan to achieve the same goal.

[mschuster91]

The parent poster advocated for a one-child policy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372090

[Chris2048]

> "Population management" is a road leading

You can say that about anything: socialist policies, "no-tolerance" policies, anything that looks like censorship.

You say there have been many such example, then trot out Nazi Germany; The fact the Nazis purposefully initiated a genocide (the holocaust) out of hatred out the Jews undermines the suggestion that there was a genuine attempt at population management.

Chinas also has a pretty poor human rights example, aside from it's 1-child policy.

Do you have any example of a modern (first-world, developed) country with a good human-rights record, and QOL index pursuing population management?