Better reallocate 'save the children' resources to contraception ?
ne...@absamail.co.za
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> Africa's Expected Population Bulge Threatens Future
> ...
> Take the example of Niger, which, at an average of eight children per
> woman, now has the highest fertility rate in the world.
>
> John May of the World Bank has begun to work with Niger on ways to
> reduce that number. The key, he says, is family planning. And that
> means making sure people in rural areas have access to contraceptives.
> ...
> But even such intensive efforts to slow the rate of births does not
> have the ability to stop what demographers know is coming over the
> next 50 years in Africa.
>
> "Demographic momentum is such that you can't simply change something
> overnight," said demographer Carl Haub. "Whatever goal you might set,
> you have to start doing something about it about a generation ahead
> of time."
>
> And that is because overpopulation is a truly complex problem, tied
> to a wide range of other issues - contraception, education, poverty,
> health - the very same issues that many African nations continue to
> struggle with everyday.
Yes but the bleeding-heart BBC TV reports, never mention the
inappropriate [if you don't accept the inevitable Darwinian pruning]
birth rate.
Because leftists inevitably [except for anti-global warmers ?] lack
the ability to understand multi-step, chains of cause and effect,
they inevitably chose short-view, wrong options. Like the French
students who can't see that 'easier ability to be fired' greatly
increases their probability of being hired.
To acheive greater results in solving global problems, [or any task]
you need to 'move up the causation-heirarchy': the policy at the
highest level is much more important that the implementation
details at the ground. Going faster 'to the wrong destination'
is not a good acheivment.
One of the highest/most-powerfull wrong policies is political
correctness. We need some prominent person with balls [like
Ms. Thatcher] to standup and SAY "we can't be expected to
support your inappropriate population growth rate...".
Of couse like the decades over-due [un-PC] open criticism
of African corruption, we must expect plenty denials and
counter claims. Certainly there is progress: facts, which could
never even be suggested in the 1070's are now accepted.
== Chris Glur.