Posted: Apr 12, 2018 8:20 am
Hermit wrote:
Making contraceptives easily and cheaply available looks like one obvious measure to reduce fertility some more. That in turn could be made more effective by neutralising religious influences, particularly those coming from the Vatican.
Another would be education.This can only be done in many countries when they are no longer so poor that they need their children to work for a subsistence. So, an increase in income would be a prerequisite,or at least a corequisite.
The people who count don't really support these measures. More people means more customers in the shops. If you could encourage people to stop buying anything but food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare, things would change in a hurry, because a lot of useless shopkeepers and widget-makers would starve to death or get on the welfare rolls.