Gross Overpopulation Is One Issue That Is Suicide For Any Politician To Address. We Are In Crisis.

[meadowlander]

98. I'm not prepared to support tying women down, drugging them and forcing them to abort.

And that's what you will have to do. That's what they do do in China. They also hunt down women who have too many children and take the extra ones away to give to rich barren couples as a punishment. Perhaps that context was on your acquaintance's mind when she responded to your "disagreeable bluntness".

More state control of womens' bodies is not an acceptable solution. Nor is it a necessary one. Birth rates are already dropping in every developing country below the replacement rate. There are also a growing number of people choosing not to have any children at all. What is needed is education and opportunity for women.

We can keep climate change under 2 degrees if we make a committed switch to renewable energy. This is already underway. More people are eating locally, committing not to buy anything unnecessary, choosing to live where they can walk or cycle to work, etc. I do all of these things and have chosen not to have children so I don't actually need to "wake up" thank you very much.

And if we're actually at the stage of runaway climate change we're stuffed anyway and within the next generation or two, whether we have one kid or fifteen.