I've never seen or heard anything that broaches this aspect of this subject. There are many liberals, especially tree-huggers, that say that the expansion of the human race is going to destroy the Earth. They believe that the planet can't sustain the increasing population. If you don't use birth control, you will kill Mother Earth.
Certainly, you could look to the expansion of the population on our planet as causing changes in the ecosystem. More people or animals means more oxygen is inhaled and more carbon dioxide is exhaled. More people require more food and homes and roads and stores and factories. That means forests are cleared away for farmland and for homes and other structures where the people will live, work, and shop. Fewer trees are then available for converting the carbon dioxide we exhale back to oxygen. More people means we burn more fossil fuels as well, and that also produces carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and more. There is argument about whether the greenhouse effect is real, but I don't think there is any argument about the presence of air pollution in population centers worldwide.
So, does birth control really solve these problems? In reality, I don't believe it has much effect at all when it comes to saving the planet. In fact, the world population continues to grow in spite of the world having access to very good methods of birth control these days.
Birth control does have a negative effect on the economies of the western world though. If you have ever read the book The Bell Curve written by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The authors present and interpret data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. They use this data to prove that many aspects of life outcomes are a function of a person's IQ. This includes work success, need for welfare and public assistance, salaries, number of children, propensity to commit crimes and be incarcerated, and bearing children outside of marriage. The book also presents the conclusion that IQ is largely inherited.
Since low IQ parents produce more children than high IQ parents and the IQ of the offspring is similar to that of the parents, the average IQ of the world's population tends to drop over time. More low IQ children are born every year than high IQ children. Birth control simply exacerbates this effect or maybe allows the high IQ parents to make this happen. The high IQ parents would possibly want to limit the time they spend rearing children to devote more time to their careers.
The end result for the western governments like ours here in America is difficult. More low IQ children create an expanding sector of the population that is dependent on government assistance. These folks are habitually unemployed or underemployed. They are a great drain on the government budgets. These folks also don't contribute by paying taxes. They aren't creating wealth or value for our economy.
People that earn less have less to spend. We have population growth in the United States, but the economy doesn't grow proportionally. The population grows, but the employment numbers don't. The lower IQ workers in the economy don't earn as much when they work either.
We have fewer workers paying premiums for Social Security today. We have been told repeatedly that we have a problem with Social Security. The cause is the mass retirement of the baby boomers and their increasing life expectancy. If we were producing another baby boom from the high IQ parents, there would be a new round of workers paying into the Social Security system.
Maybe the answer to fix this MessAPolitico is to get the upper socioeconomic classes to produce more children. Instead of having only one or two children, it would be great for this segment of the population to have three children. If my wife and I had it to do over, I believe we would have had another child. We could have afforded another one. Our children have both graduated from college and are productive members of society. Please consider this sociological theory when you are planning your family. The answer isn't to make the affluent among us pay a higher tax rate. It is better to have more affluent people paying taxes.
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