Less babies is good news for Earth

I want to discuss this more later, but just to note it (and find it again) and let others who might be interested read it:

Fertility and living standards: Go forth and multiply a lot less

One excerpt to kick it off:

"Lastly, a special case: China’s one-child policy, which began nationwide in the early 1970s. China’s population is probably 300m-400m lower now than it would have been without it. The policy (which is one of population control, not birth control) has had dreadful costs, including widespread female infanticide, a lopsided sex ratio and horrors such as mass sterilisation and forced abortions. But in its own terms, it has worked—20m people enter the workforce each year, instead of 40m—and, to the extent that China is polluting less than it would have done, it has benefited the rest of the world."

Did I ever say that draconian dictatorial edicts enforced by a ruthless, corrupt, autocratic Communist government were universally a bad thing?