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The best thing everyone can do is have fewer children. This is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about.
by anonporridge 5y ago
The best thing everyone can do is have fewer children.
This is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about.
- leucineleprec0n 5y agoJust the opposite. Arguably anyone reading these comments - yes, you — ought to have a greater number of children. A world of fecund engineers, executives, mathmeticians and what have you is a world vastly more equipped to deal with climate change than the counterfactual without them.
- warlog 5y agoHow's that working for humans so far?
- leucineleprec0n 5y agoWhy don't you come back to me when fertility rates rise.
- valbaca 5y agoCareers aren't genetic
- leucineleprec0n 5y agoRight, that's a cute way of being obtuse. The antecedents to successful careers are, to a degree. The generally-applicable cognitive skillset is the point.
- exporectomy 5y agoWell, if you're getting into things nobody wants to talk about, how about have fewer non-contributing or low-value children? I suspect that most of the people in the world are deadweight who pollute just to exist while a minority actually make things happen. It's hard to know exactly who will be who but we can use some heuristics. Any thoughts on my enhancement of your idea or are you afraid of talking about uncomfortable elephants in rooms?
- js8 5y agoActually, it's fewer high-value children (if you want to judge it this way). 90% of the emissions come from the 10% of the wealthiest population.
- exporectomy 5y agoSince those productive people are supporting the unproductive ones, they'll go with them. I don't think the Earth can sustain 7 billion hunter-gatherers without technology. It didn't seem to before industrialization.
- nameisname 5y agoWho is everyone? I'm sure there's data on it.