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It's a mistake to believe that the growth of the population
will block the economic development. If we look, for example, to India.
In India, there's today a population
twice as big as 40 years ago.
This population lives better than they did 40 years ago.
Food resources, today, in India, are higher than 40 years ago.
The same happens in China and in Brazil. What does it mean?
It means the development of agriculture
is faster that the development of the population, and we also forget that, when the population grows,
they are not only consumers, they are also producers.
So, in reality, when there is a demographic growth,
production, particularly agricultural production, develops faster than the population.
50 years ago there was a lot of famine in Asia.
Today, famine has vanished.
The technique moved faster than the population.
Second observation: we can see that,
when a poor country
reaches a certain level of development,
spontaneously, the population stabilizes,
because the parents want a better education for their children,
so, spontaneously, the parents reduce the size of their families.
So, the solution for the demographic problem,
is not really coercion, it's economic development.
Economic development makes the parents
want a better life for their children,
and so the population stabilizes.
That's what we see today in most of the countries.