Reducing Births

Mina said:
I've never met a propagator (or propagater, for that matter) of overpopulation hysteria. However, for those who recognize the role a large population has in making it harder to attain a sustainable pollution output level, there's no fixed number, because it depends on technology. One of the toughest parts of the climate equation to solve is carbon output. It's what you get when you multiply carbon output per capita with population. If you address the first part of that equation, you get more leeway on the second. So, for example, if we were to develop a highly economical, scalable, low-carbon energy generation technology, that would allow us to have generalized prosperity at a low per-capita carbon output, and thus we'd be able to get away with a much larger population. With current technology, though, we can't even get away with current population, because the per-capita carbon output is just too high to be environmentally sustainable when multiplied across the current population.
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you are a propagater of overpopulation hysteria.

you never met yourself?

unlikely.
 
AssHatZombie said:
you are a propagater of overpopulation hysteria.
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I'm simply pointing to the facts. Right now, human beings are churning out more CO2 than the environment can take up. That has resulted in CO2 levels in the atmosphere rising at a pace never before seen in the history of human civilization, which is giving rise to an unprecedented pace of climate warming. And it's not stabilizing -- although we've managed to decrease per capita carbon output in the advanced nations, it's rising in the developing nations at they increasingly emulate our consumer economies. Counting on a deus ex machina, like cold fusion, to come along and drive global per capita carbon output dramatically down any time soon is a wildly risky gamble. So, it makes sense to come out the problem from the population perspective, as well. The more we can slow population growth, and maybe even reverse it a bit, the easier the math gets for achieving sustainability. Incentivizing birth control, in ways like I've suggested here, makes the rest of the climate challenge easier to tackle.
 
The U.S. population grew at a slower rate in 2021 than in any other year since the founding of the nation, based on historical decennial censuses and annual population estimates.

The U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2021 Population Estimates show that population grew only 0.1%.

So, I don't see a problem that should warrant any governmental restrictions on having wanted babies.

I do see a problem brewing from the Supreme Court that will allow states to ban abortions of unwanted babies in their states.
 
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