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2. "It's fine to do it anyway."

Tue Jun 14, 2022, 01:16 PM

Jun 2022

This is humanity’s motto. We all act on it all the time. This is why humanity will not act significantly on climate change.

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Jill Filipovic: Having Kids is Bad for the Planet [View all] Nevilledog Jun 2022 OP

Hard to argue with science. Ferrets are Cool Jun 2022 #1

"It's fine to do it anyway." enough Jun 2022 #2

"It's OK if we do it. Our children will fix things..." MineralMan Jun 2022 #3

If two people have only one kid, that would work. Scrivener7 Jun 2022 #4

It'd be a major strain on 1 child to support 2 parents Kaleva Jun 2022 #5

China tried that. How'd it work for them? TreasonousBastard Jun 2022 #7

It reduced the number of births considerably. Which was the purpose. Scrivener7 Jun 2022 #8

A population way out of balance. TreasonousBastard Jun 2022 #9

A population that isn't starving. So there's that. Scrivener7 Jun 2022 #10

As opposed to what, India? meadowlander Jun 2022 #14

The Chinese discovered that as good as One Child looked on paper... TreasonousBastard Jun 2022 #15

As far as the current economic model, not so well. PortTack Jun 2022 #11

The *snip* at the end waddirum Jun 2022 #6

Nature doesn't care about "reasons." hunter Jun 2022 #12

My take's a bit different. Igel Jun 2022 #13