Posted: Sep 06, 2016 9:44 pm
Calilasseia wrote:CdesignProponentsist wrote:Why not simply use the methods already show to be effective?
Economic and gender equality, access to higher education, and reasonable standard of living. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that these all have a correlation with lower fertility rates. Solve them and you solve the population problem.
For some reason the server lost my post text, so I'm editing the post to recover it.
Scientific American published an article - The Unmet Need For Contraception - back in 2000. I still have the original copy in my collection somewhere.
That might have been where originally read this. I have been subscribed to Scientific American since the early 90's. I'm also pretty sure I've heard the statistics since then from other sources as well.
There doesn't appear to be any need for draconian measures, that there is a win-win scenario if we are willing to tackle these other equality and quality of life issues, birth rates will naturally decline as a result.