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The research on the reasons for population growth shows that human populations under conditions of regional limits of sustainability have the ability to limit breeding rates. Thus there are potential conditions for limiting the biological breeding rates through governmental rules.

There is however in the long view a deficiency in the limiting process, presumably due to cognitive deficiencies and societal factors influenced thereby. Indications therefore are:

-          delay in accommodating the rules of the society to the real development of the society

-          maintaining the intraspecific competition, e.g. between different “nations”

-          comprehensive, at least latent refusal in the society of family planning by contraception

-          enduring development for solving population growth/limits of sustainability by extending the limits of sustainability, instead of attacking global population growth.

Helmut M Knoflacher in Bevölkerungswachstum (Population Growth) – zwischen Erbe und Erkenntnis (German), in Rupert Riedl et al (Ed.): Die Ursachen des Wachstums (The Reasons for Growth) 1996.