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hughee99

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12. Financial penalties for those who have children?

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 4, 2019, 11:35 AM

Jun 2019

Do you have children? If you did, you’d already know they’re not cheap.

But is the plan that children should be something only the wealthy can afford to have?

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New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050 [View all] JonLP24 Jun 2019 OP

No way at all to model this Loki Liesmith Jun 2019 #1

it begs the question: What then are the specific and relevant flaws in the analysis? LanternWaste Jun 2019 #13

Yes I have a problem with the entire analytic method Loki Liesmith Jun 2019 #15

Yep Snackshack Jun 2019 #2

The longer we delay, the less the amount of humans that can survive on the "other side". roamer65 Jun 2019 #3

Can we bury Malthus already, but still get serious about CO2? JCMach1 Jun 2019 #7

Financial penalties for those who have children? hughee99 Jun 2019 #12

Mayday, Mayday! Jesus appalachiablue Jun 2019 #4

This is part of the reason for increasing instability among political systems around the world pecosbob Jun 2019 #5

And they want to extract as much value/money out of everything RoadMan Jun 2019 #8

It was nice knowing all of you. MrScorpio Jun 2019 #6

Given my age, I imagine I won't be around for the going away party. Good luck people. Vinca Jun 2019 #9

Survival of the Richest Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #10

Survival of the scum of the earth is more like it. SammyWinstonJack Jun 2019 #11

Kicking for later! smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #14

Thanks for posting in GD. Duppers Jun 2019 #16

Why indeed. Denial is my guess. SammyWinstonJack Jun 2019 #19

Kick appalachiablue Jun 2019 #17

Tom Brown, the tracker and survivalist says that in his video too Beringia Jun 2019 #18

Society won't be willing to change until it's too late Amishman Jun 2019 #20