Quote: (05-31-2013 11:42 AM)solo Wrote:
But like Gates says, how is giving vaccines to children that couldn't otherwise afford it (for instance) a bad thing?
If you were a hardcore Malthusian, you'd say higher survival rates aggravate problems created by overpopulation.
The infrastructure in Africa is not improving, yet the population continues to increase. If you feed someone and they go on to have ten children, you've just made the problem five times worse. When people have trouble creating prosperity for themselves, multiplying the population isn't going to help. Bread without birth control means more suffering. Starvation, territorial aggression, disease... none of these are helped by an increase in population density.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/world/...wanted=all