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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (30593)	3/8/2005 10:11:52 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Actually, I was thinking Margaret Sanger, backwards (Regnas Teragram?;-). She thought high birth rates caused perpetual poverty. Perhaps poverty leads to high birth rates. Alleviating poverty, then, should bring birth rates down. Considering economic progress over the last 50 or so years in many parts of the world and, as shown in Laz's links, the general decline in birth rates even in developing nations like Sri Lanka, it seems I may be onto something. Now, what else can we expect from rising living standards? Take your time... OK, rising living. Or if you prefer, lower death rates. Which would you expect to show up faster? Lower death rates or lower birth rates? I say the former. Laz's charts agree, I think. Result? Faster population growth for a time, until the decline in death rates levels off (as it must) and the decline in birth rates catches up (as it has done -and then some- in the developed world). Ergo, no problem. ;-)