The current trend is to financially punish people, particularly the poor, for their impact on the environment/climate. By that logic, having kids should be bru

The current trend is to financially punish people, particularly the poor, for their impact on the environment/climate. By that logic, having kids should be brutally expensive, as it's the absolute worst thing you could do for the environment. If we're seriously talking about 'degrowth' at this point, a managed decline of human economic activity, then population degrowth - significantly reduced breeding - should be the top priority?