Not so sure of that, Val. See this TED Talk where Gates claims he can depopulate the planet by 10-15% using vaccines.
This lecture is from February of 2010.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero/up-next
Yeah, I’ve seen that and how it is misrepresented by the kooks.
He is talking about the behavioral changes in families when their kids don’t die in infancy. People who live in 3rd world shitholes where vaccine preventable diseases are rampant have lots of children because so many die in infancy.
When your babies live and thrive, you have fewer of them and concentrate your resources on them. This is borne out by the statistics of developed/developing nations around the world. When infant mortality goes down, so do reproductive rates.
So preventing the major drivers of infant mortality through vaccines is a no brainer. Now you’d think liberals would be all about saving children just for humanitarian reasons, but you’d be wrong.
Those assholes believe in overpopulation, so they think kids dying is helpful. Gates uses the the math to show these jerks that they are wrong about that. Saving the babies reduces the reproduction rates and contributes to lower population growth.
It’s a fundraising technique, because most of the billionaire set would rather save baby seals than human ones. But telling them that saving babies through vaccines will reduce population growth gets them to open their wallets.