Yeah, motivations that are already near universally advocated by modern Western culture, like avoiding teenage pregnancies, avoiding STDs (encourages condom usage), a culture where having lots of children has lower social status, a culture that advertises career advancement and high socioeconomic mobility (at the cost of having fewer children), avoiding overpopulation, etc.
The bottom line is none of the things that you seem to have implied (i.e. density, time, and families) could hold a candle to the power of birth control.
Population growth never would’ve slowed down if birth control didn’t start getting mass-produced, more efficient, and more affordable.
That really shouldn’t be hard to understand.
As I already wrote in the FAQs, there are other factors that affect fertility rates as well, but it’s naive that most people never think about nor consider the importance of birth control.
I’ve never seen a LessWronger with a decent understanding of population dynamics, probably because there are close to none.
Yeah, motivations that are already near universally advocated by modern Western culture, like avoiding teenage pregnancies, avoiding STDs (encourages condom usage), a culture where having lots of children has lower social status, a culture that advertises career advancement and high socioeconomic mobility (at the cost of having fewer children), avoiding overpopulation, etc.
The bottom line is none of the things that you seem to have implied (i.e. density, time, and families) could hold a candle to the power of birth control. Population growth never would’ve slowed down if birth control didn’t start getting mass-produced, more efficient, and more affordable. That really shouldn’t be hard to understand.
As I already wrote in the FAQs, there are other factors that affect fertility rates as well, but it’s naive that most people never think about nor consider the importance of birth control. I’ve never seen a LessWronger with a decent understanding of population dynamics, probably because there are close to none.