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Conserving resources through controlling population growth is more important than the freedom to have as many children as you want
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No, because... The conservation of resources does not depend on the control of the population growth
Dropping the argument that China was successful with its one-child policy, the way they implemented population control need not happen again. The problem would actually be solved legally and morally, with support from the UN (which does say that population growth wipes out even the brink of hope for development in poor countries). Check the report released this week on Women and Climate Change from the UN Population Fund. Gender equality, family planning, women empowerment... that is a viable though not readily solution to much of the problem of population growth, household violence etc. The conservation of resources is related to population growth, more people use each more (we follow a self-defeating model of economic growth)... humans are incredibly primitive, and it will take much too long in Earth capacity limits for us to discover the key of unlimited clean energy and resources.
The conservation of resources does not depend on the control of the population growth.
The conservation of resources has to do with the form of development. If development is merely based on the economic profit for the few people only and against other priorities such as environmental, social and political values, then there is no respect of resources as well.
By intervening to the right of a family to have children is against any human freedom. Was the Chinese example of strict birth control correct or successful? Never heard that. Instead we hear about the psychological problems some children have in China. Cause they are they only child and parents put the whole burden on them. They press them to succeed in the school, in the University by engaging them in too many activities around it. They spoil them with everything cause it is their only child. Children get confused and stressed and feel that failure is not an option. We have heard of the abortions some women do just because of the gender of the baby. Also of the problems that some Chinese families face with the State cause they did not obey and had more than one child. Is this the right way to combat global warming?