No one is trying to educate people (poor and illitrate) to produce less children.
Rather Race is to subsidise things for those poor, who have chosen to be poor by adopting to bad habbits (drinking / not working / gambling) producing children like animals and than demanding subsidies.
We all know oil is non renewable resource and once competition fot its use grows, its price will hit the roof.
I tell you today huge deisel is consumed in North India for running Diesel Gensets, and supplying Uninteruppted Electricity. But if Diesel subsidy is removed, people learn to live in free economy.
Or else go towrads SOLAR /WIND/Nuclear means, which ever is regionally acceptable.