Why contraception is important for world peace and prosperity

Increased use of contraception (or some other way of having less children) would help with SO many things other than pensions (which it wouldn’t help with):

  • Global warming – less cars, less consumers, less people needing housing.
  • Starvation – if a species have more than 2 children surviving to sexual maturity per couple for a sustained period then eventually it will lead to a catastrophe. It’s basic maths. So as well as giving people food in countries where people are starving and also having 6 children if they can, we should try to change this.
  • Other resources – less competition for resources generally.
  • Pollution
  • Quality of life – less people in the rat-race, more open spaces, less noise…
  • Species loss
  • Deforestation

So we might have a bit of a pension gap for a few years, but personally I think it would be worth it. Population growth, like economic growth is just not continuously sustainable.
I love the bit in the Al Gore movie (an inconvenient truth) where he mocks the marketing image of a pair of scales – the earth on one side and gold on the other. As though you could have gold without the earth. I think the same thing applies to the simplistic way of thinking about population growth in relation to economics.

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