Climate Change and the Female Population

[Uncle Joe]

5. Poverty leads to increased population and increased population increases poverty it's one of those

self-perpetuating loops.

Poverty Causes Population Growth Causes Poverty

Everywhere in the world, in every kind of culture, the poorest people have the most children.

Does having many children make people poor? Or does being poor make people have many children?

That is a hot question in the continuous struggle over how to spend foreign aid money. Those who think population growth causes poverty advocate programs in family planning and population education. Those who think poverty causes population growth favor direct economic aid, jobs, capital investment. Take care of development, they say, and the birth rate will take care of itself.

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If different investigators can take their different biases into in the same village and all find what they are looking for, maybe they are all right. Maybe the original question was too simple, assuming “either/or” when the truth is “both/and”. Poverty does cause population growth and population growth does cause poverty. Economic development means increasing control of both parts of the cycle; the ability to choose your family size, and the ability to make a living with something more than your hands and the hands of your children.


http://donellameadows.org/archives/poverty-causes-population-growth-causes-poverty/

http://rprogress.org/training_manual/20-PopulationPoverty.pdf