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asim ◴[02 Nov 25 06:34 UTC] No.45788244[source]▶
Tens of billions spent on AI data centers. But people still starve across the planet. Amazing.
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lenkite ◴[03 Nov 25 07:03 UTC] No.45796537[source]▶
Birth rates are >4 in most of those starving regions. Family planning needed first.
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1. wussboy ◴[03 Nov 25 14:04 UTC] No.45799043[source]▶
That is the cart before the horse. Families, and women specifically, need stability and reasonable guarantees that fewer babies will be more likely to survive before they will stop having 4.
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2. lenkite ◴[03 Nov 25 16:23 UTC] No.45800786[source]▶
No, it is definitely the cart after the horse - kindly check basic facts. The babies are surviving thanks to declining child mortality - population of regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa has grown from 434 million to ~1.3 billion in the last few decades.

Basically your assertion that "reasonable guarantees that fewer babies will be more likely to survive" is completely and utterly wrong. Desperate family planning is needed, but religion stands in the way. No amount of international aid will fix this fundamental problem.

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3. solumunus ◴[03 Nov 25 17:06 UTC] No.45801388[source]▶
Climate change will sort that out.