Climate Change
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I just can't understand why population reduction isn't a more high profile solution. You almost never see/read discussion around having fewer children. Surely the aim with climate change is to reduce consumption/emissions? So reducing the number of people creating those emissions seems like an obvious longer term solution that needs adopting whatever else we do in the short term?
Why do we still celebrate when people get pregnant, as if it's something novel? Why do we shun people who choose not to have children as if they're being selfish? I know China failed massively with their 1 child policy, it was a disaster. But if choosing not to have children, or only 1 to 2 was more culturally accepted (not mandated by an authoritarian state) but there was a gradual shift, much there seems to be right now with people opting to eat less meat etc.
The rise of automation would mean that we need less people in general for every day tasks, we're already seeing people losing jobs because of this. The 4 day work week could be a normal thing soon, which again is an implication that we may do just fine with smaller populations.
- because the entire Western capitalist model is built on an ever-growing workforce - why on Earth do you think immigration's so highly encouraged?Nairn
- I agree Nairn. I think it's pretty obvious that capitalism needs rethinking if we're to get out of the climate crisis.BaskerviIle
- Growth for the sake of growth is so absurdly unsustainableBaskerviIle
- My mum was from a family of 10, my father from a family of 9. My parents had two kids, I've had 1. The numbers are already decreasing.PhanLo
- We can't get people to stop using plastic bags. What hope for stopping them having kids!Hayzilla
- ^Hehehe.PhanLo
- *mulls hayzilla's point* The answer is clear - we need to remove the child safety warnings from plastic bags and encourage their use as toys!Nairn
- ^the population was controlled by a phenomena known as 'Nairn's blue bairns'.PhanLo
- sex is the sedative of the poor. it eases the pain of poverty.imbecile