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I wonder how your parents feel about your attitude, lucky for you they didn't share it.
This argument does not invalidate the original comment. I think my parents were stupid to have me and could have enjoyed their life better. I think i had two of the top 10 parents worldwide but still, it was a decision made with naivety and stupidity of youth.
On what do you base this thought ?
This is a rather serious issue but very few people care. It is at least as important as global warming. Media and politicians don't care at all.
This comparaison is very strange: less population means less consumption, which is highly correlated with GHG emissions. A drastic reduction could cause serious short term issues for humanity (not for any other form of life) but were not here at all, curves are stabilizing around 2kids. You shouldn't be afraid to let go of the gas pedal on the freeway, the car won't stop straight away. Especially if your speed is exp…
So the operation succeeds but the patient is dead? The survival of people and cultures trumps GHG emissions. Unless you prefer an empty planet with no GHG emissions.
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This argument does not invalidate the original comment. I think my parents were stupid to have me and could have enjoyed their life better. I think i had two of the top 10 parents worldwide but still, it was a decision made with naivety and stupidity of youth.
> I think my parents were stupid to have me On what do you base this thought ?
This is a rather serious issue but very few people care. It is at least as important as global warming. Media and politicians don't care at all.
Yet the world population keeps growing [0], the majority of the world's countries have increased the retirement age since the 2010s [1], and there's more measured productivity per worked hour than ever [2], correlated with people having to work less for the same wealth. The Gini index on a macro level hasn't changed much [3], either. I fail to see why this issue might be "at least as important as global warming". [0]…
It's about the survival of peoples, nations, cultures and civilizations. I fail to see how it's not important.
>I fail to see why this issue might be "at least as important as global warming".
See the previous sentences.
This is a rather serious issue but very few people care. It is at least as important as global warming. Media and politicians don't care at all.
They are connected though. I know many people under the age of 35 who choose not to have kids because they don't want to bring children into a world threatened by climate change. Here in Finland, a female child born today has a >50% chance to live to an age of 100. That means our new children will probably still be alive in 2123. The projections for worst-case climate change over that time span are terrifying. You ca…
Do you think the majority of people are into that ideology?
This is a rather serious issue but very few people care. It is at least as important as global warming. Media and politicians don't care at all.
This comparaison is very strange: less population means less consumption, which is highly correlated with GHG emissions. A drastic reduction could cause serious short term issues for humanity (not for any other form of life) but were not here at all, curves are stabilizing around 2kids. You shouldn't be afraid to let go of the gas pedal on the freeway, the car won't stop straight away. Especially if your speed is exp…
> No one really knows why birth rates are dropping so fast. [...] Many people have theories but if you critically examine them they fall apart. > [#1] People do not have money for kids. [#2] The Government isn’t Providing pro-natal policies. [#3] This is happening only in societies that are not religious. [#4] Women are working and not having kids. That seems like an incomplete list. For example, how about this one:…
Pro-natal policies are a drop in the bucket compared to the fact that basics like housing costs 10x more than with the previous high-baby-having generations