These takes are so fucking insane, especially considering most of these countries with high birth rates don't even have a particularly large carbon footprint.

There's been a big hoopla recently over China loaning money to African countries to build out the infrastructure. Libs are mad as fuck because African countries can see something tangible being done, and so they prefer dealing with China over the West. Libs will also smugly remind you that the USA offers way more in the way of humanitarian aid, which includes shit like contraceptives and other forms of birth control. The fucking insanity of this is that there's still no meaningful development of these countries via the the aid that the West proffers up. There's no real concerted effort to attack the root causes of why poor people tend to have higher birth rates. Instead we have corrupt ass NGOs and the likes of Bill Gates using Africa as their playground to pull the wool over everyone else's eyes.

This isn't to say that humanitarian aid isn't bad, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be accompanied by real investment into building out the continent's infrastructure and supply chains. It's easier to quantify what China is doing in Africa because it's actually pragmatic. There's currently a project in the works to build out a rail system that would connect most of Subsaharan Africa. All that money the west is supposedly giving out of the goodness of their hearts, and it's only now that sensible shit is being done.