
Peter Singer on the Life You Can Save
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The Importance of Saving Children
I agree that increasing global population is a problem, but we don't solve it by simply leaving people as they are. People in extreme poverty continue to have children and global population grows. The countries that have managed to slow population growth or eliminate it altogether have been the more affluent countries. I think what we need to do is to get people out of the very depths of poverty where they can't get their children in education.
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