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Originally Posted by Probono
Bingo!! Fewer people means a higher quality of life for all people. If religion was not so idiotic more family planning would make a better world for everyone. If we don't do it mother nature will with war, famine, pestilence oh they wrote part o a religious book about those horsemen didn't they.
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Mother nature already more than takes care of it. People group together in areas of high risk and typically get hit in large numbers. Though we do spread out, we do not do so as an organism normally should. So yes drought, earthquakes, flooding, disease, and a whole multitude of natural disasters work well towards population control. By the way, war is not mother nature.
Then if you look to more educated and well off people you will see they have less children and just breed less. Thus some countries are actually experiencing a negative population growth. Then you have when Governments make an attempt and you get a screw up like you did in China where you now do not have enough women for the future and it is now of national concern. To many men, not enough women and you will have a population issue.
It may also be argued that prohibiting abortions (wrong in my eyes) also increases the overall mortality in an area or country. Those with prohibitive laws seem to show higher numbers in child & mother deaths, typically do to having the procedure done outside of a safe medical facility.
To what the author said though. We have seen several cultures accidentally use agriculture to the point of self destruction. You have all those Asia temples that were built and eventually lost to the jungles again due primarily to overworking the fields, you can possibly blame the fall of Rome on not only lead poisoning but overworking the mountain regions and along riversides which silted up their harbors and created swampland where there was once fishing and boating, to numerous other cultures that went about it all wrong despite how successful they were at the time as empires.