To be completely honest I have to agree with this: we live in a
drastically overpopulated world, and 1 thing which we do not need is a lot of
people creating a lot of new people.
Never in human history have we ever managed to feed everybody on
the planet and here we are with the largest population we have ever had, which
has been in a constant boom for the past century.
I’m not suggesting anything as drastic as China’s 1 child rule,
but better access to contraceptives and family planning services isn’t just a health
issue any more; it’s a survival issue.
We may have technology to save and prolong life that we never did
before now but we need to start using it responsibly. And 1 thing that that
means is that now we know there’s less chance of children dying in childhood
than before and with the introduction of services for older people we can
afford to have fewer children and know we won’t lose out on help when were
older or our families coming to an end if we have few children.
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