Growing Reluctance To Have Kids In A Collapsing Climate Enough To Get Morgan Stanley's Attention

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5. It depends a lot on how affluent they are.

A child of a wealthy person has a huge environmental footprint, the children of struggling farm workers, not so much.

What sort of environmental footprint children will have when they grow up isn't set in stone.

Personally, I think we should be paying people to experiment with lifestyles that have a very small environmental footprint.

That would, of course, include realistic sex education, the economic empowerment of women, and free access to birth control.

If most families are having 0, 1, 2, or 3 children that would lead to a stable or declining population, which would be a very good thing. Especially if those children decide to disengage themselves from the worst excesses of our world's high energy industrial consumer economy.

The awful truth about our world is that most of us suffer work that is not making the world a better place.

What we now call "economic productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to our planet's natural environment and our own human spirit.