The environmental disaster called children November 16, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,432 |
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A startling and honestly distressing view is beginning to receive serious consideration in both academic and popular discussions of climate change ethics. According to this view, having a child is a major contributor to climate change. The logical takeaway here is that everyone on Earth ought to consider having fewer children.
Although culturally controversial, the scientific half of this position is fairly well-established. Several years ago, scientists showed that having a child, especially for the world’s wealthy, is one of the worst things you can do for the environment. That data was recycled this past summer in a paper showing that none of the activities most likely to reduce individuals’ carbon footprints are widely discussed.
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Academic article
Contrary to political and philosophical consensus, we argue that the threats posed by climate change justify population engineering, the intentional manipulation of the size and structure of human populations. Specifically, we defend three types of policies aimed at reducing fertility rates: (1) choice enhancement, (2) preference adjustment, and (3) incentivization. While few object to the first type of policy, the latter two are generally rejected because of their potential for coercion or morally objectionable manipulation. We argue that forms of each policy type are pragmatically and morally justified (perhaps even required) tools for preventing the harms of global climate change.
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Re: The environmental disaster called children November 18, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,432 |
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selidororous
I bookmarked the link and will read it later on today - this rock called Earth has very serious problems with overpopulation.
Third world countries need to have forced birth control.
Re: The environmental disaster called children November 18, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,735 |
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selidororous
I bookmarked the link and will read it later on today - this rock called Earth has very serious problems with overpopulation.
Third world countries need to have forced birth control.
Developed countries are actually worse in some ways: we may create fewer people, but each of us is using many, many times the amount of resources of people in developing countries.
Re: The environmental disaster called children November 19, 2017 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 1,231 |
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selidororous
True enough.
I think in dire enough circumstances, goods will have to be rationed, like during WW2.
Too many people, too much waste.
Food and gas being at the top of the list. Ugh.
Re: The environmental disaster called children November 19, 2017 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 804 |
Developed countries might be worse in the carbon footprint, but developing countries are just as bad in their own ways. All of those extra people need land and money, so they will cut down rainforests, poach endangered and keystone species to extinction and just eat everything not nailed down when their numbers get too much much for any given area.Quote
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selidororous
I bookmarked the link and will read it later on today - this rock called Earth has very serious problems with overpopulation.
Third world countries need to have forced birth control.
Developed countries are actually worse in some ways: we may create fewer people, but each of us is using many, many times the amount of resources of people in developing countries.