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darkknight109 posted...

Every time some major disease gets cured, we don't suddenly enter into an age of famine and extreme poverty - life, as it turns out, continues to get better. Which, really, makes sense when you think about it (people don't have "extra children" just in case they lose a couple to disease).

This runs counter to the rest of the paragraph. People do have more children when there's a higher mortality rate, that's why birth rates drop in healthy countries.