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Population reduction advocates never seem to argue that themselves committing suicide would be the moral choice, which reveals they are valuing the preservation
by cwkoss 5y ago
Population reduction advocates never seem to argue that themselves committing suicide would be the moral choice, which reveals they are valuing the preservation of their own current lifestyle over the lives of the "others".
In practice, it seems like the majority of people who call for population reduction are white/western supremacists who lack empathy for humans born with less privilege.
Birth control should be freely available to every human on the planet. Beyond that, I don't think there is any moral policy available to reduce population.
- fragbait65 5y agoYou are probably correct. I didn't really mean to suggest population control, even though I wrote just that. The problem as I see it is that everybody tries to approach the problem as if it will be solvable by technology. The only way I see that we can solve a climate crisis or the survival of humanity long term is to actually work together. Which I'm pretty certain will never happen, since there will always be greedy and selfish people.
- cwkoss 5y agoI agree. I believe reducing wealth inequality is the best path towards stable global population. Nearly half of the countries in the world are already below the population replacement rate - and it seems birth rates are inversely correlated with wealth to some extent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d... If we can end war and poverty (and that's a pretty big 'if'), I think global population would stabilize and this would be a non-issue.
- fragbait65 5y agoI'd say wealth and education, but in most counties wealth and education go hand in hand, so I agree with what you say.