gwern comments on Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - LessWrong

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Comment author: gwern 30 May 2012 07:15:42PM 12 points [-]

For one thing, the overall economic and environmental impact of one child in the developing world far outweighs that of one child born in poorer countries.

This also holds true for their positive impacts too. Not much good science is conducted by Africans in Africa.