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Birth rates decline pretty proportionally to economic development, arriving at well below replacement levels in highly developed countries. In light of this, it seems misguided to expend energy personally convincing people to have less children, when we could just focus on bringing more people up to the western standard of living that, apparently, organically makes having many kids mostly unappealing.

Less charitably, this is the kind of advice that mostly seems like an excuse to preach at people.

>>mycolo+(OP)
> Less charitably, this is the kind of advice that mostly seems like an excuse to preach at people.

No, I just picked it as a random example of something that you can do to reduce population growth. Widespread access to birth control in developing countries would be a better solution. Supposedly educating girls in developing countries also helps reduce population growth as well. And there are probably countless other things you can do.

They also have traditions in many developing countries to have very large families.