Yes. Plus think of all the women who could die if we simply withhold the 'nature altering' benefits of maternal care - heck, if we just let women die during the agony of an unassisted birth, like 'nature intended,' we could surely shave 30% off the top of population growth.
I don't understand the $$ is more important than people POV, but perhaps that's because I'm a "bleeding heart."
It's not just mothers that would die without childbirth assistance, C-Sections and things like NICU's. We could also cut out IVF and all "unnatural" stuff, creationists think destroy their religion, even as they partake of the very science they claim is contrary to their beliefs.
I'm curious to know who's going to volunteer to be in the population that is "culled" by nature, volunteer up their loved ones or have notified their descendents that they don't care much about what faces them, what counts is exploiting what can be exploited now, while it lasts. Who really cares about the offspring they say the "love" or their descendents. If they did, would they be so non-chalant or laissez-faire about what they leave behind for them?
Are humans really a higher form of intelligence than mulitiplying cancer cells that consume their host to death and themselves out of existence?
Doe human beings have the ability and the capacity to direct their fate, at least in part? Can we actually figure out when we are headed on a course with disasters of our own making, then change direction to avert a would be disaster?
Sure, nature will do for us, what we won't do for ourselves, but we won't have any control over who lives and who dies in that case. We can prevent lots of needless loss of life some call so precious when in the womb, from being lost once born to life because of greed selfishness and failure to think about the future of our descendents and leaving them something other than a lot of depleted and damaged resources and natural life support systems so damaged they may not recover or because they are so damaged by being overwhelmed they will not support what the population on earth has grown to and as with animal populations who overgraze or overpopulate (and do things like overgraze) experience starvation and die outs because there is too much of an imbalance between population and what nature can provide or keep up with.
