the only people smart enough (or stupid enough, depending on how you look at it) to take the population problem seriously and not produce are the exact people we NEED to produce.
no one in the third world slums cares. none of the poor, criminal american minorities care. no one in the trailer parks care. they will continue to multiply like cockroaches meanwhile all the 'civilized' people who's offspring would at least offer some benefit to society die off. great. and that largely explains your problem with urbanization. this entire part of my state has gone from mostly rural and fucking beautiful to a crime infested strip mall all thanks to democrat policy and blacks from the city moving here. FAAACCKK!!!! meltdown
Well. If those people were provided with affordable condoms and birth control then that would help a lot for sure. A lot of those kids are born because these people simply cannot afford contraception.
Condoms and birth control are expensive for somebody who makes dollars per day. They simply can't afford them.
A lot of these people are uneducated too, and they don't really understand the world situation.
But these are side effects of capitalism and industrialization. There's an underbelly of people who are dirt poor and uneducated. It's not their fault. They were born into a really terrible situation and it is extremely difficult to work out of that.
I do think that lots of the poor people in this world have their issues. But I don't think it's really thier fault usually. They were just born into the shits. What do you expect them to become?
You plant a flower in the worst, shittiest soil on Earth. Don't be surprised when it doesn't grow well.
I can't relate to the lack of empathy for poor people. Some poor people are lazy scumbags. But the poor people of thirdworld countries are usually just the victims of circumstance.