01-26-2021, 05:16 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
The action that must-not-be-spoken, the “third rail” of global warming mitigation - ZPG
Better get to work on that forced sterilization plan.
Abundant research shows that the level of formal education achieved by women is the single most important determinant of population growth. The next most important determinant is generally economic and social well-being. For example: https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/re...on.en.html
There is no need to wave around totalitarian threats like forced sterilization.
Ombligo wrote: I've told my son and his wife that the kindest thing they could do for their children is not to have them.
That's also a non-starter. Humans (and all other life forms) are hard-wired by a billion years of evolutionary pressures to reproduce. It's folly to tell them to "stop doing that". Also, the cry to "not bring children into this terrible world" has been a common theme for generations (associated with things like the population bomb, the atomic bomb, air and water pollution, etc). For the most part, the predictions that have triggered such pronouncements have proved to either be unfounded, solutions have been found for the problems that produced them, or unanticipated changes (such as women's education in the developing world) have resolved them. Furthermore, if the intelligent people who might produce offspring who could solve mankind's problems decide not to have children, then the great unwashed masses who only contribute to the problem will win out.