The Crisis of Overpopulation || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Overpopulation is not merely a problem, it's a crime, it's the most dastardly crime today.

00:06How to control?

00:07There have to be both positive and negative measures.

00:11When populations get more educated, the fertility rates drop, there are better medical services

00:18and education is guaranteed and there is social security and greater participation of women

00:25in the workforce.

00:27Again, the fertility rates drop and all these are great things to have, irrespective of

00:33their effect on the fertility rates, right?

00:36We want people to be educated, even if that does not decrease the fertility rate.

00:40We want women to be empowered and to be financially independent, even if that does not decrease

00:47the fertility rate.

00:48So all these are virtuous goals that come with the added benefit that they have a sobering

00:56effect on the fertility rate.