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India now has a rising middleclass and a steadily declining rate of population growth.
They're going to have to make-up for decades of error but they are getting there.
Subsistence farming is going to be with us for awhile to come, there's no way most of the globe goes tech in the next few decades, but population growth has slowed across all economic levels.
Subsistence farmers, given the chance, use birth control just as readily as their big city counterparts.
The deciding factors are availability and affordability and it's not taking 2 or 3 generations.
I remember that study form India, given the numbers coming in now they changed their minds within one generation despite Indira Gahndi's attempt at forced sterilization, which surely gave population control a bad name.
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