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Yes! Human ingenuity will either solve climate change, or it won't, in which case we're either going to die or live a hard existence on another planet. If anyth
by lowkey_ 5y ago
Yes! Human ingenuity will either solve climate change, or it won't, in which case we're either going to die or live a hard existence on another planet. If anything, the more children there are, the higher the odds that those in the next generation will be able to come up with solutions to climate change.
This is all putting aside the basic argument that it's our most fundamental purpose. If we stop reproducing, humanity is extinct within a ~hundred years.
- Jensson 5y agoNo amount of technical development can keep up with exponential increase in resource usage. Just giving western living standards long term to everyone we have on earth today is a daunting task, adding even more is just insanity. And no, adding more people until everyone has to live a poor destitute life wont make people more creative.
- lowkey_ 5y ago> No amount of technical development can keep up with exponential increase in resource usage. People having children doesn't mean exponential increase in population. The US has an average children per family of 1.93 as of 2019, which actually means the population will shrink. > adding more people until everyone has to live a poor destitute life wont make people more creative This is a common fallacy that wealth is a fixed pie, and adding more people into the equation will make existing people poorer. This isn't true — wealth is created!