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What if people stop having so many children?

• adwn 5y ago
  In those countries that are most responsible for climate change, they already did.
• _Microft 5y ago
  They already do. Peak population growth rate (i.e. new humans relative to existing ones per year) was over 50 years ago and it was decreasing most of the time since then. We now only suffer from the fact that the base number is now much larger (leading to higher absolute growth numbers). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#/media/File:World_population_growth_rate_1950%E2%80%932050.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#/media/File:...
• adrianN 5y ago
  That won't make us become carbon neutral before we've hit tipping points that take the problem out of our control.