[hamburglar]

There is a difference between reducing the world’s population and slowing its growth rate. The highest growth rates are necessarily in areas with high mortality. People have more babies to compensate for this mortality. Improve mortality rates and the population growth naturally goes down.

[wongarsu]

Good point, "Reducing population growth" is a more accurate portrayal of what Gates actually said.

But in practice they are the same thing. Almost the entire developed world has a fertility rate below the replacement rate. Even the upper half of developing countries are below replacement rate. If you bring health care, urbanization and the economy across Africa to levels comparable to Russia or Brazil we can expect their birth rate to similarly fall below the replacement rate too.

[larodi]

Well, here's something else he's saying as of like - today

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-to-blame-for-world...