Eric Swanson wrote:
> Notice that there's no mention of population as a problem. Population
> control is off the screen.
>
> How do "we" demolish these barriers to rational action?
Do you really see that rational action mandates population control?
I assume you mean coercive control, since we already have plenty of
policy measures that bear on fertility, such as benefits and
legislation. A fair amount of this is actually intended to support
child-reading, but of course the strength of this support is easily
enough varied in principle. What do you think we should rationally do,
that goes beyond this approach?
Note that the USA is barely at break-even for total fertility, and
pretty much the entire rest of the developed world is well below that.
Education, wealth and healthcare seems to do the job you want pretty
well, without the need for coercive measures (mind you, one could
probably create a pretty good correlation with just about any
environmental variable, so perhaps I shouldn't make any strong claims
for causation).
James
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