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ToxicSlurpee posted:The other thing I'm wondering if part of this is just the economics of it being impossible. A lot of people are saying "birth rates below replacement rates is really bad" but we're already seeing the effects of overpopulation all over the place. Global warming is a big example. There is also only so much of this rock and everything on it to go around. 7 billion people might just turn out to be too goddamned many. Keeping our numbers in check could very well turn out to be a good thing. Now that we have reliable birth control it's entirely possible that we could keep a cap on our population. The link between global population and global warming is iffy at best, and it's often used as a soft smokescreen against environmental controls, ie "It's this inevitable. uncontrollable fact of life that's causing global warming, so we may as well just let transnationals be,". If we are honestly concerned about not irrevocably loving up the planet then 'stopping people having babies' is a very minor and very complex (and very fascistic) measure that would be a long way down a practical list of interventions.
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