[Theophilus]

OK I can see that. He was mixing positive factors: vaccines & health care with negative factors like: family murdering to estimate a net future growth rate.

In that case he was being mistakenly optimistic because we are already way below replacement rate in most of the industrial world. The god of stuff is being enthusiastically worshiped everywhere!

[Chickensoup]

OK I can see that. He was mixing positive factors: vaccines & health care with negative factors like: family murdering to estimate a net future growth rate.

DepoProvera, aka the shot for the stupid, is a long acting birth control.

[DannyTN]

"OK I can see that. He was mixing positive factors: vaccines & health care with negative factors like: family murdering to estimate a net future growth rate."

Read the link I posted in post 46. Gates views all three as reducing population growth. His view is that as child mortality goes down, and health improves, that people naturally have fewer children. And apparently this was something he advocated long before he made the questionable comment.