• shockwave
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    21 year ago

    The mistreatment goes back 100 years+. Climate change is hitting the region too, so yet another Western ‘gift’. That said - warning: unpopular opinion! - they could help by having fewer children. Too many north African and Middle Eastern countries are way above what is sustainable, so quality of life is crashing as they fight for what few resources they have.

    • @DrM@feddit.de
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      31 year ago

      But they need the children since it’s their only life insurance. If there would be social care in these regions, child birth would go down as it did in all first-world societies. With the current state its not possible, because not having children would mean you starve to death as soon as you get sick because nobody can take care of the lifestock