Population, economic growth and ecological damage - a peek under the hood

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2. Thanks for your input.

There are many factors that influence population growth and decline, that vary in relative importance from one region of the globe to another.

In counter to your argument that better educated, healthier women have fewer children (one that is widely shared), I will offer the demographic evidence around the collapse of the Soviet Union - a well-educated, non-religious, relatively affluent group of nations that faced a drastic decline in material and economic circumstances:



It may be that my argument isn't "wrong on every level", so much as it challenges a number of deeply-held preconceptions about population growth.