One factor is that primitive societies count on family to take care of the aging out generation. More advanced cultures have retirement plans, mutual funds, stocks and other financial instruments so that it is not necessary to have enough children survive in order to support generations in their old age. India and Africa are closer to the older method.Cool Breeze wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:05 amThis could be a longer answer, but it is most simply stated by saying "Wealth and spiritual decay/demoralization".
It's a numbers issue largely too. The absolute loss will be enormous for the bigger populations, but it will also be higher percentage wise; that's because when you consider the move down in numbers (already closer to bottom of the barrel survival states population wise) there eventually is a buoying effect that is not there at the crazy high trad/subsistence living paradigm of poorer nations, as they move down from crazy high population levels.
Another factor is that the advanced cultures are more aware of the environmental limits. It is essential that resource use reduction and recycling be balanced with a reduced population. The desire to reduce population is in part due to that.
I am aware that you are into tribal thinking. You need reasons to disparage and oppress others. Thus, any group you are not part of gets labeled as having spiritual decay and demoralization even if there are other pertinent factors. But your calling yourself Christian without loving your neighbor or charity is somehow not an indication of spiritual decay? If you are going to preach, you had better make yourself ready to live on the City on a Hill.