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China is bad, but it's not the main problem, Africa is. Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing. Africa will be the last nail in this particular cofin.

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Empower women. That is a proven path to reducing the fertility rate, even if direct cash transfers to women are necessary to more rapidly provide the autonomy and empowerment that would naturally occur through industrialization.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...

Sure, western women have been empowered so much so that birth rates have been below replacement for ages now. So this idea has some major problems. First, it will take too long - cultural changes take decades. Second, you won't be able to stop this particular snowball once it picks up momentum as is evident from the west.

Yep. Women education is the only thing with proven negative correlation to birth rate. That's why apart from WWF I only donate to women education in Africa.

Any charities in particular you’d recommend?

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