Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
The world cannot - and should - support that many people with all the above. So we can either cancell human rights, saying we are no more owed a life - much less a sheltered, well-fed life - than any other animal. And let people die - which we do anyway.
The key word in article 25 is of course adequate. "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for ... "
The world could maybe support 9 billions Bangladeshi or Ethiopians. It certainly can't support 9 billion Americans, or Australians, or Swiss.

Quote Originally Posted by thir View Post
Or we acknowledge that in order for all to have these good things, we have to become fewer people as well as distributing things differently.
The crux is that the only real effective measure to bring down birthrates (apart from sheer violence like the Chinese did) is development. That and education, especially the education of women, how Bangladesh proves.