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The opposite is true, considering your audience. In order to improve the environment those who can raise newborns with first-world nutrition, care, and educatio
by drak0n1c 3y ago
The opposite is true, considering your audience. In order to improve the environment those who can raise newborns with first-world nutrition, care, and education need to have more children.
The economic efficiency and technological leaps that come with increasing the number of productive people would mitigate, slow, and potentially reverse climate change much more than surrendering the world to those who refine metals by mixing mercury over burning tires and will continue to reproduce without care for Malthusian handwringing.
Note how the US reduced carbon emissions despite an increasing fertile population and concurrent deregulation. While others who focused only on limiting their status quo increased emissions. Human society is dynamic, not static, and linear projections and limits do not play out so simply.
- cedws 3y agoThis is a very optimistic viewpoint. You are making out climate change to be a technology problem when in reality it's a political problem. Bringing more people into the world to do more climate research isn't going to help. There are billions of people out there that want what we have and have no regard for the climate. They'll burn as much coal and slash as many forests as they need to get there.