The problem is not reducing population, it’s to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?
How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.
And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.
Now do kids.
There should be, but I expect the unintended consequence is a severe drop in birth rate.
unintended consequencedesirable effectNot always. See Japan and Korea, for instance.
Let’s hope they figure out how to reduce population gracefully. It’s important to save the planet.
The problem is not reducing population, it’s to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?
We do by working towards post scarcity and transitioning away from capitalism
And if they try to stop it we force the transitioning
How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.
And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.
And this is why we can’t have nice
thingsdemocracy.Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
https://time.com/4192760/hitler-munich-excerpt/
It was almost 100 years ago, but yeah, everything leads to Hitler eventually.
No… no. Not everything, but rhetoric like in your comment.
You’re literally cheering on eugenics, with a false hope of what it would achieve.
It TOTALLY won’t be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.