[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.40,0:00:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A common misunderstanding is that if we save all the poor children, the world will become overpopulated. Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.80,0:00:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This may sound logical, but it's wrong. Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.60,0:00:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the other way around! Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.20,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saving the poor children's lives is required to end population growth. Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now! Look at the UN numbers. Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.70,0:00:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poor parents on average have five children. And one dies. Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.20,0:00:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look! Two parents are replaced by four surviving children in the next generation. Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.10,0:00:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This means population is growing very fast among the poorest. Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.60,0:00:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the average family in the worst off places like Congo and Afghanistan. Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.20,0:00:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, where child mortality is highest, that's where population is growing faster than anywhere else. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.40,0:00:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many people live like this? Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.70,0:01:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are seven billion people in the world. One block: one billion. Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.90,0:01:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poorest two billion... Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.40,0:01:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...they live like this. Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.80,0:01:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other five billion... Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.80,0:01:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...they have this average family. Two parents having two children and there are few child deaths. Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.90,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the majority of the world population, not only Europe and the US. Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's throughout religions and cultures: China, Iran, Mexico, large cities in Africa. Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.29,0:01:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today in most populations children just replace parents. Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.20,0:01:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the size of generations are no longer increasing. Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.10,0:01:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This means the population will stop growing. Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.70,0:01:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did so many people end up with small families? Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.50,0:01:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, their children stopped dying. Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.70,0:02:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As they left extreme poverty and girls got education, parents no longer had to Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.50,0:02:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compensate for child death by having many babies. And a large family stopped being Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.50,0:02:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an economic necessity or a social status symbol. Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.20,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with modern contraceptives, parents across the world, the majority, Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decided to have a small family. Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, by saving the lives of poor children and helping the last two billion out of poverty, Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these parents will also decide to have fewer children. Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.20,0:02:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And fewer. Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.20,0:02:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually... Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.10,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...reaching the two child family. Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That showed the UN family size forecast up to the end of the century. Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.40,0:02:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then the world population is expected to stop growing. Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.90,0:03:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before it stops, another four billion people will be added to the world population. Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.60,0:03:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four billion more. That's a lot of people! Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.40,0:03:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the longer poor children keeps dying and this change is delayed, Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.30,0:03:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more billions will be added. Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.70,0:03:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So ending population growth starts by saving the poorest children.