Cadillac Man
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Bill Nye: “So, should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?”
Travis Rieder: “So, I do think that we should at least consider it.”
Bill Nye: “Well, ‘at least consider it’ is like, ‘do it.'”
Travis Rieder: “One of the things that we could do that’s kind of least policy-ish is we could encourage our culture and our norms to change right.”
Rachel Snow: “I would take issue with the idea that we do anything to incentivize fewer children or more children, I think it’s all about, this is where it’s justice, it’s human rights we’re really clear people should have the you know have the number of children they want, the timing of children, and if some families have five or six children god bless them, I mean that’s fine well but most people end up with fewer.”
Nerys Benfield: “But when you talk about penalties who are you going to end up penalizing, right?”
The bottom line is that Nye instigated an open discussion on the propriety of imposing penalties to control population growth. He neither proposed nor advocated such a measure.