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Many third world nations are overpopulated because of their religion - I don't know if one would go so far as to consider their religious belief as ignorance or not - possibly! When a nation is developing, still in an agricultural frame of mind, one can understand the desire for large families - large families = cheap and available labor. As a nation developes it soon discovers that a large population is a burden and not an asset. Asian nations historically have always been overpopulated and underfed. It would stand to reason that the solution to one of these problems is the reduction of the other. Cultures change slowly. I would imagine if the idiot in charge in N Korea could choose between the two he would take more groceries and less people - isn't 20/20 hindsight great.
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