You cannot get below 50 while people are desperately poor. You can't go below 50 and still stay endemically poor.
50 seems to generate a critical mass - only 1 country has gone below 50 and returned. that was North Korea, that fell into the hands of a Communist military dictatorship.
People seem to get fixated on famines. Famines don't kill as many people as poverty does. people who are poor live in slums, with open sewers running past their doors. their kids will get dysentry, and die of it. They will be undernourished, prone to infections. they will have to go work the fields or the factoriesor on the strets instead of going to school. And if they survive into adulthood, these kids wiill have a big family. because if they don't have several children, nobody will be there to look after them when they get old.have 6 kids , and maybe one or two might make it.
Poverty does not keep population down , it drives it up. Look at the Greenest countries on the map. Check their population growth, and their GNP per capita. One or two kids max, in every family. Kids who are immunised, in school, and have access to clean water and sanitation. that is the way to go - that is what we need to aim for, world wide.
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You cannot get below 50 while people are desperately poor.
You can't go below 50 and still stay endemically poor.
50 seems to generate a critical mass - only 1 country has gone below 50 and returned. that was North Korea, that fell into the hands of a Communist military dictatorship.
People seem to get fixated on famines. Famines don't kill as many people as poverty does. people who are poor live in slums, with open sewers running past their doors. their kids will get dysentry, and die of it. They will be undernourished, prone to infections. they will have to go work the fields or the factoriesor on the strets instead of going to school. And if they survive into adulthood, these kids wiill have a big family. because if they don't have several children, nobody will be there to look after them when they get old.have 6 kids , and maybe one or two might make it.
Poverty does not keep population down , it drives it up.
Look at the Greenest countries on the map. Check their population growth, and their GNP per capita.
One or two kids max, in every family. Kids who are immunised, in school, and have access to clean water and sanitation. that is the way to go - that is what we need to aim for, world wide.