Peter Singer: Population Growth

"I think some predictions [on population growth] have been too gloomy," says Peter Singer. "I think there is hope that if we get countries up to a better level, a level where they can not only survive but can have some education for their children—one of the things that clearly inversely correlates with reduced fertility is the number of years of education a girl gets. So if we can bring countries up a level where they can educate their girls, that gives us some hope of stabilizing their population. And of course, we could also help them with providing the means of family planning. I think that's a perfectly reasonable part of an aid package."

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[Albacornelia]

Smaller families are more productive, they live longer and have less impact on public services thus improving the lives of all in the state.

[chrstphrgthr]

Albacornelia and firstlaunch are both right. Good luck getting people, especially Americans, to change their ways or their government though. Choose not to have kids until you are SURE you can not only support them, but ensure them a better opportunity than you had. In case of accident: 1: Abort; failing that 2: Adopt or 3: Raise your damn children! Forget your dreams and ambitions and give them as much as you can to ensure that they will contribute, positively, to society in some way, please...

[vgman94]

@bunbun5877 Do you know how much your father wasted in resources? And until your generation's life is over, we won't know what your generation does for the world. Is anyone of them an ARA? Greenpeace, even trying to research medicine? Anything like that? One of our presidents even learned to read on his own. It's not about where you went to school for, it's what you do with your life.

[Sirstingray]

@bunbun5877

Just because you have one isolated example that contradicts him doesn't mean that his statement wasn't generally correct.

[tothemax01]

0:14 yes we should. Try again.

[tothemax01]

Interestingly, western countries (and japan) have had a natural sub-replacement fertility level for quite some time. In response to this, those countries (with the exception of japan) have responded with multiculturalism - resulting in large scale immigration of foreign nations and races, who have no such lack of fertility level. This has been deliberate and hard-line encouragement of boundless population growth (and proportionally speaking, anti-westernness).

[Albacornelia]

@bunbun5877 how is overpopulation a myth?!?!?!?!?!

are you some sort of fundie or what?

[bunbun5877]

@Albacornelia Overpopulation is a myth. And it is not true what you say about smaller familes. My dad come from a family of 7 kids. 6 went to great colleges, 4 ivy league. So it just depends on how they are raised. There are familes with 2 children who live off of public services so what you say is simply not the case.

[AirLockBelsen]

Achieve your dreams and desires before you go for that final privilege and opportunity of having children, pass that momentum and motivation into them !

The Motivation and desire doesnt have to be about money !

[sedatedcoho]

Create better living standards and incorporate the use of technology to assist with production and that would reduce populations. When living in a system that provides little to no healthcare children have a higher risk of dying, hence why impoverished people tend to have so many children. If you have a society lacking utilisation of technology then the demand for manual labour increases, thus the demand for a higher population.

[NowForTruth]

reduce fertility ahhhh...???

[ThoughtGazeCarlos]

@Albacornelia, You said, "smaller families are more productive, they live longer and have less impact on public services thus improving the lives of all in the state." Well, what also happens is that their cultural identity essentially disappear and they are replaced by other culture. Look at what is going to happen to Western Europe. bye-bye to their cultural identity by 2060.