... leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods ... express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Dawkins argues that denying effective contraception leads to population growth that is naturally checked by starvation.
- In plain terms
- Banning contraception leads to population limits via starvation.
- What can you take from it?
- Restricting birth control causes suffering rather than solving issues.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are the costs of population control?
- How do we limit growth ethically?
Another view
Other factors like migration also affect population levels.
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