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Population control is either code for loathesome solutions, or a card tool in which the planet is already fully invested. The demograpic transition has hit the third world in full force, the number of places on the planet with significiantly above replacement fertility is small, and getting smaller fast. What more, exactly, do you want? Because other than small families, the only way to limit the future size of humanity is genocide. So, please, dont ever bring this up again. It tars the green movement with a brush the colour of blood.
by Thomas on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 09:54:23 AM EST
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How about a global one-child-per-woman policy?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:04:41 AM EST
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Requires a level of state control which is not only morally dubious, but also impossible in most places. China can enforce it because of the omnipresence and authoritarianism of the Chinese state aparatus, in the rest of the third world, it would just not work, and in the first world, it would get repealed in a single election cycle.  Most of what can be achived by moral and practical means in this area has been. There are minor exceptions - if you want to campaign to end abstinence only, I am not going to question your motives, but in general, people who bring up population control as an answer to resource crunches creep me the fuck out.
At best it means they are operating on a mental model of third world demograpics that is twenty, thirty years out of date, and the options go downhill very far and very rapidly thereafter.
by Thomas on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:56:53 AM EST
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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 03:22:34 PM EST
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