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

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4. I am not sure about your point and

would question the reliability on numbers from the Soviet Union.

In countries where actual births and statistics are recorded the reality shows that as the education level of the mother increases the number of births decease. There was one study where it was purported that a number of educated women with high salaries had increased the number of children they gave birth to. On further study it was shown that in fact they had not increased their birth rate but had just postponed giving birth.

By pursuing education and work during their most fertile years they had in fact limited the number of children they could give birth to because of biological reasons. Consciously or unconsciously when women are provided education and opportunities the birth rate goes down.

Also, the resources of the earth are not infinite and in many cases need to be replenished. There are too many people and many overpopulated parts of the world are learning that. India is having several outbreaks of dysentery because they cannot dispose of the waste of so many people. China has similar problems and as more of the countryside is annihilated the problem is growing. World health groups are increasingly worried about outbreaks because of overpopulated countries.