Some scholars have suggested diverting scarce resources from education, health, and industrialization into various forms of birth control, including, if necessary, forced sterilization.These observers regard the presumed alternatives-poverty, famine, war, ethnic violence, and the growth of huge filthy cities-as too horrible to contemplate.However, what do these observers fail to see?
A)how measures that lower social inequality help to control overpopulation
B)how measures that raise social inequality are tied to limited economic development
C)how natural disasters lead to overpopulation and its consequences
D)the relevance of demographic transition theory to present-day realities
