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How would you address overpopulation?
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Asked 2 years ago
by rtscott  United States |
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Figurative painter and contemporary master Richard T Scott.
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Through education, the reduction/elimination of poverty, and empowering women with the ability to control their means of reproduction. My experience as a health care provider is that women in poverty are the group that have the most children and it is not due to a preference on their part! Margaret Sanger, in America, gave strong evidence for that reality in the early 1900's. Women who are not poor have fewer children by choice, largely due to their having access to health care and the means of reliable birth control.
teotwaki has it right. Educate the populace and you reduce population pressure. More educated woman have fewer children. Oh and decent birth control etc programs too, of course.
I agree, but how would this be enacted? It doesn't seem like western governments (especially the US) have much interest in those who suffer from poverty unless their country has exploitable resources. They don't buy things and therefore don't benefit the financial interests of the wealthy nations.
You nailed the problem, Richard. Organizations exist (WHO, UN, many NGOs) to address the issues and much of the rest of the world is enacting changes to address them. Unfortunately, in the past 7 years especially, the U.S. has actively worked to halt those efforts. By refusing to fund any UN program that mentions abortion or distributes birth control without restriction, for example, American has significantly hampered the effort. How to address the poverty issue? Now that is the $64K question - pun intended. :)
Education is key as bringing in children tends to cloud the longer term rationalisation of the costs - material and intangible - to the immediate family and to society at large.
Further to that is government alignment to the correct message. Here in Australia, the gornment gives aid in the form of money to families to have children - MORE IF YOU ARE A SINGLE PARENT. Which results in young girls getting pregnant just for the handout. The correct way there is to give aid only to married couples for example.