Timeline for What are ethical ways to curb the global human population increase?
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| Oct 16, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | THelper | Hans Rosling has given several interesting lectures on the topic. I can recommend this Ted talk where he shows that low child mortality has led to (more or less) stable population sizes in many countries. If you have more time I can recommend this 1-hour documentary about Hans Rosling's work | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Flyto | @stragu So would I! But I'm answering from memory as a time-strapped layperson, I'm afraid. If anybody can suggest appropriate references I'll be very glad to edit them in. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 21:30 | comment | added | Móż | Iran is a useful case study as they have been through cycles of different government incentives over the last 50-odd years, leading to crazy population changes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning_in_Iran has an outline. It's less authoritarian than the Chinese approach so might be more acceptable to white countries (and less brutal that the policies applied to brown countries by white ones, so more acceptable to the brown ones). Ethics of population control is a tricky question since it directly involves balancing individual freedom with group freedom and species survival. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 21:29 | comment | added | stragu | I accepted your answer, but I would love to see that supported by some references. Also, would anyone consider a form of legislative cap on number of children per couple to be ethical? | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 21:26 | vote | accept | stragu | ||
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| Oct 8, 2016 at 7:00 | history | answered | Flyto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |