Can China recover from its disastrous one-child policy?
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Can China recover from its disastrous one-child policy?
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#2The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it.
The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
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#3The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it. The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
Read the article. It includes a graph that show that fertility was already drastically dropping before one-child was introduced.
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#4The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it. The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
Read the article. It includes a graph that show that fertility was already drastically dropping before one-child was introduced.
And, continues to drop:
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629361870/despite-the-end-of-...
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#5A good saying is that once a country gets used to a low amount of children it usually stays that way. So no they can't
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#6The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it. The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
"Saved" China and the world from what?
What problem could justify such an abhorrent intrusion into a person's life?
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#7The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it. The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
Read the article. It includes a graph that show that fertility was already drastically dropping before one-child was introduced.
China is bad. Have I got the gospel right?
Now, the _facts_ are that the policy did have a real, significant impact. And that has benefited mankind as a whole.
But, OK, let's say it was useless... I cannot be said to have been disastrous, then, can it?
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#8The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it. The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.
"Saved" China and the world from what? What problem could justify such an abhorrent intrusion into a person's life?
World population:
1980 - 4.4 billion
2019 - 7.7 billion
This has a massive impact on our environmental footprint and on climate change.
But, right, let's not intrude into a person's life, that would be abhorrent...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Saved" China and the world from what? What problem could justify such an abhorrent intrusion into a person's life?
World population: 1980 - 4.4 billion 2019 - 7.7 billion This has a massive impact on our environmental footprint and on climate change. But, right, let's not intrude into a person's life, that would be abhorrent...
Should a government have the power to dictate how many children we have? That does not seem abhorrent to you?
Strange days when one is downvoted for criticizing China's immoral and brutal policy that violated the most basic of human rights.
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#10There seems to be a dogma that the population must grow, and any sign that it might stop growing at some point is bad. "Go Forth and Multiply" as it were.
Personally I believe that population growth can't go on forever in a finite world. But even if it could, I think we should prefer quality over quantity when it comes to human lives.