Aardvark: I want all to live a long and better life, but my point was, contrary to what Panorama viewers believe, birth control policies in the Third World,
increase substantially their populations for a couple of generations or so.
Perhaps we are inclined to associate population and poverty too closely. Western Europe, for example, is large in terms of population per square miles,
but we are rich. There are both poor and rich, large countries. There are poor and rich small countries. The dominant characteristic between rich/poor large/small countries, is economic infrastructure. This is the key to economic wellbeing.
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