Dear CM,

You claimed the African fertility rate was 7 births per female where it is under 5 and falling. You claimed the Indian fetility rate was 4 births per female where the correct figure is 2.33.

Yet when you got pulled up on it by Aiden your reply was “Answer- Yes fertility rates are a moving target.”

Piss weak mate. You overegged the figures either by mistake or design but then you tried to imply some kind disagreement exists. It does not. You were wrong and I think it would be both courteous and decent to admit it.

Up to you.

SteelRedux-

Dear CM,

You claimed the African fertility rate was 7 births per female where it is under 5 and falling. You claimed the Indian fetility rate was 4 births per female where the correct figure is 2.33.

Yet when you got pulled up on it by Aiden your reply was “Answer- Yes fertility rates are a moving target.”

Piss weak mate. You overegged the figures either by mistake or design but then you tried to imply some kind disagreement exists. It does not. You were wrong and I think it would be both courteous and decent to admit it.

Up to you.

Answer- Thanks for your feedback.

Dear CM,

Still no acknowledgement that you were wildly incorrect.

Csnem,
Excessive quoting is annoying, especially when you don't even address the points you quote.

And to say "Yes fertility rates are a moving target” is misleading, as the main feature of moving targets is that they're hard to hit. But the aim here isn't to hit an exact figure; it's to reduce the rate. And the lower the rate gets, the less important reducing it becomes.

>But it appears Aiden just doesn't believe in reducing the population of the world even for the environment.
Correct. Slowing the growth in world population s important and s being addressed. But actually reducing the population would be incredibly difficult and controversial would not enable any environmental improvements that can't be made by other means.

Aiden said-

Comment 1-

Excessive quoting is annoying, especially when you don't even address the points you quote.

Answer 1- Thanks for the feedback.

Comment 2-

But actually reducing the population would be incredibly difficult and controversial would not enable any environmental improvements that can't be made by other means.

Answer 2- I believe that the only way to protect the environment and prevent other nefarious cultural effects such as war, poverty and genocide is by reducing the number of people in the world to ten percent of its current value. In order to achieve this policies need to be implemented against high population countries to achieve this goal. Aiden is free to believe what he wants- so are others

Interesting links...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/28/a_declining_population_need_not_cause_angst_140422.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froma_Harrop