alt Hacker News> I'll say - it also wouldn't kill us to have slightly fewer people on the planet. We're already taxing much of our systems/ecosystems past their breaking points. Smarter people than me, entire groups of scientists, are saying that what we're doing now is badly unsustainable and we're heading for trouble.
If you believed this, would you be against sterilizing third world populations to limit the overall population growth ( given those are the populations which continue to grow in this environment ) ? If not sterilizing - what about propagandizing their younger population to not reproduce? Would that be a net-good?
If not, why not?
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> If you believed this, would you be against sterilizing third world populations to limit the overall population growth ( given those are the populations which continue to grow in this environment ) ?
...wow.
Is this a serious question?
"X is bad" is obviously not a license to commit genocide to lessen the effects of X.
Easy, very affordable access to birth control (both information and actual physical stuff) for all humans is a very good idea.
Their populations will follow the same pattern with increased education.