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I think my feeling would be “The planet cannot possibly stand having 100 grandchildren for every current person. What have I done!?!?”
by amanaplanacanal 3y ago
I think my feeling would be “The planet cannot possibly stand having 100 grandchildren for every current person. What have I done!?!?”
- xyzelement 3y agoThe "good news" (though I don't think it's good) is that an average person is having zero children. I suspect a generation out, we will be super grateful for those who had many, not those who had none. Or more like, we'll probably completely forget about those who had none - as history has with those who've made that decision in the past.
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoIndeed. We are experiencing a demographic catastrophe. Malthusian hysteria seems impervious to reason. > I suspect a generation out, we will be super grateful for those who had many, not those who had none. By definition! An understatement. Exactly zero members of the future population will be descendants of those who had no children, and it is difficult to imagine anyone of sound mind shaking his fist at his ancestors for having bred.
- throwawaylinux 3y agoBut we still should have more. Even many of the ruling class who have among their highest priorities the goal of shifting the blame and burden for climate change onto the commoners believe that birth rates are so low that even immigration is needed to increase populations in the most highly polluting per-capita countries. So if climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, the population crisis must be even greater.