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Having one less child has far more of an impact than all of those lifestyle changes combined.
by ShorsHammer 9y ago
Having one less child has far more of an impact than all of those lifestyle changes combined.
- jtzhou 9y agoAnd providing education for and/or adopting other children so that they learn how to live responsibly.
- toasterlovin 9y agoYeah, but then you are probably reducing the frequency of people who care about the environment in future populations, which may be a net loss.
- ShorsHammer 9y agoExtrapolating that out environmentally concerned people should have as many children as possible and outbreed those not concerned about greenhouse emissions? Such a statement seems to assume that the mind is an immutable object only created in childhood. While it certainly causes cognitive dissonance for some, an SUV driving redneck carnivore with no children has created far less emissions than a public transport using vegan environmentalist with 2 kids. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
- toasterlovin 9y agoMostly I’m just saying that, given that most aspects of personality are 30-80% heritable, I think people should really think twice before contributing to a future with less long-term thinkers in it.
- ShorsHammer 9y agoCertainly do understand the motivation, it just seems like a race environmentalists can't win. There are better ways to change minds.