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Originally Posted by Twig6
Haiti’s “trouble” with population growth is directly related to the fact that cheap grain has been forced on them unceremoniously from the U.S., cause population is a function of food supply:
Human Population Numbers As a Function of Food Supply
Human Carrying Capacity Is Determined by Food Availability
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What you are really saying is that in the absence of imported food, people starve or leave and the human population reduces to the carrying capacity. Great, let’s keep the poor poor and it doesn’t matter if they starve. Such policies just create political instability.
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Originally Posted by Twig6
If Haiti had been treated as most other industrialized countries have been treated, vs. loan sharking them into ridiculous economic policies, their population would most likely have grown more along with their actual production and import capabilities. Their production would probably have been increased to keep up with more sustainable population growth and demand.
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Probably not. There is simply no evidence anywhere that any human society has reduce the number of births in response to less available resources. What has happened instead has been emigration and conflict with neighbouring societies over access to resources. It has only been in the recent period that birth rates have declined. This has occurred most profoundly in the most economically advanced societies.
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Originally Posted by Twig6
Of course, you can’t achieve that democracy when you’re indebted to powerful institutions who are intent on reducing the population of your country to slave labor for large corporations.
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What strikes me as odd in your statement is that corporations are most powerful in societies that are richer and have least power in societies that are poorer. Poor people can’t buy stuff and so cannot provide profits for corporations. Therefore, corporations tend to concentrate their efforts where the money is. After all, they are profit making ventures.