Dakota K,
Yours is an ignorant comment, not worth making really.
First, all third-world people have high birth rates. Why?
Since historically about half of all children die in such places (as they did in North America in the 19th century), higher birth rates assure survivors.
Since poor places have no pensions or security nets, surviving children are your security in old age.
Population only explodes when historically high death rates are reduced through science advances such as immunization. Birth rates do not immediately respond to new, lower death rates. People need to be sure things have really changed.
The problem - a temporary population explosion - can only realistically be helped (before its ultimate self-adjustment) through economic and birth-control assistance from abroad. When people's income rises, they have fewer children.
As far as birth-control assistance, the greatest stumbling blocks in the world are American foreign-assistance policy (influenced by the Religious Right) and the backward Catholic Church.
