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by zztop44 904 days ago
“Directly addressing that fundamental problem”… what did you have in mind?
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Raise living standards, decrease child mortality and wait two generations.

It worked for the first world.

(This is, as I understand it, a very basic summary of Bill Gates' approach).

It's working everywhere. India dropped below replacement fertility a couple of years ago. The only part of the world left with above replacement growth is sub-Saharan Africa, and even the very highest, like Niger, has seen substantial drops in fertility rates.

If anything we're a few decades away from a rising panic about increasing them again.

Umm... promoting family planning instead of stigmatizing it? It's not exactly rocket science.