On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:14:05 am Charles Haynes wrote: > > And as Western populations are allowing female > > independence in this way, it is being accompanied by a fall in fertility > > as women choose to have fewer babies. > > It seems to me that, at least for now, overpopulation is a more > serious threat to sustainability.
I decided to respond to this separately because this is an interesting response. Overpopulation and sub fertility are two separate issues because sub-fertlity and falling populations are occurring in different areas of the world from the areas of high fertility and high population. What is needed is not sub-fertility in Europe and hyper-fertility in India, but exactly the opposite. I would have thought that Europe could do with increased fertlity and India with reduced fertility. No matter how many European women fail to have kids for the noble cause of global overpopulation, it makes no difference to the fertility in India. Or Africa. shiv
