Why Is Population Growth Seldom Discussed?

[DonCoquixote]

114. several reasons

But race and religion are the big two. For example, there was a stir in the UK when the most common name in England was not john or Henry, but Mohammed. Religions of all sorts want BIG families, because that is a very effective way of gaining dominance, it is why the one thing most clergy have in common is opposition to birth control and abortion. It also gets to the sticky issue of race: when there are calls for birth control, some people will say, and rightly so "OH, I get it, you have no problem with people like you breeding, but you see my family as a threat!" It may seem awful to think of a cradle as a weapon of mass destruction, but the fact it is. It is also a political weapon, as countries that feel weak will try to breed their own as opposed to immigration. It is no a accident that in the South, and in Russia and yes in Germany, there is an outright hostility to immigrants, and a call for large families, or as they say in German "Kinder Nicht Inder" (Children not Indians).

If you were to seriously curb population, you would have to address the political and religious issues, which boil down to how to earn the trust of people that can look and say "OK, how am I NOT supposed to interpret this as an attempt to make sure you, the majority, are not just freaking out, and that you simply want less of my children around to compete with your children!"