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Not having kids has little influence on the emissions in the next ten to twenty years, which is what counts with regards to reaching tipping points.
by adrianN 4y ago
Not having kids has little influence on the emissions in the next ten to twenty years, which is what counts with regards to reaching tipping points.
- throwaway5959 4y agoKids consume more energy pound for pound than adults with regards to food. There’s also all the associated products that go along with raising children, many of which aren’t handed down, etc.
- adrianN 4y agoKids do have a lot fewer pounds though. Also humans live around seventy to eighty years. So stopping procreation right now would bring us to carbon neutrality in about that time. That means that in about twenty years stopping procreation would have reduced carbon emissions by about thirty percent or so. That's a lot, but far from what's needed to prevent catastrophic warming.