Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Birth Control generally takes off when women are educated (even a small amount) and they go and get jobs
In the long run the birth rate will fall everywhere - as it has in every country that has it becomes richer
Nigeria, to take an extreme example, has 150 million people and google says that the growth rate was 2.6% in 2018. At some point one hopes it will start getting richer and growing less but how much population growth will happen before it does? China's civilization is older than the west's but it has a population problem. In fact some of the older bits of the world have very poor female rights especially w.r.t. birth control. I don't think you can be so sure that there is a one-way progression to a better future. I suggest that it's in everyone's interests to try to push things along as best we can. It should also be under consideration that we make the future world a one that is friendly to our ideals. If you took an ancient Roman forward, a lot of people use their alphabet, words, laws and have concepts of government that bear resemblance. They made a future that they would probably be able to cope with even if it is now run by former "barbarians".