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BlueGreenGrey · M
completely agree with it as long as Earth's human population remains well above historical norms of about 1.5 billion
and still agree with it even if we got population back down to 1.5 billion but it was 1.5 billion narcissist consumerist parasites continuing to exploit and ruin the planet on a scale never seen before the Industrial Revolution
it's absolutely ponderous when people like Elon Musk bemoan "falling birth rates" when in fact the global population keeps rising ... the lament of pronatalists is entirely racist and classist, they only bemoan falling birth rates of educated, middle-to-upper class light-skinned people in First World nations and continue to promote obsolete concepts like tribalism / borders / nationalism, even though we all share the same atmosphere for better or worse
the fewer humans there are on the planet, the better the chance that each individual human gets to enjoy existence more, with less competition for resources and less of a human artificial imprint on things like climate which affect us all in any socioeconomic demographic ... even nimimal human populations of 500 million or 100 million would be better than 1 billion, and entire continents (e.g., the Americas) could revert to wilderness entirely
I do not believe procreation is a fundamental human right, and a constant, sustainable birthrate would be better, more rationally managed by the state itself, with every new cohort having a completely equitable and healthy upbringing and education geared toward maintaining the most pleasant collective existence for everyone even in the absence of old concepts such as families
and still agree with it even if we got population back down to 1.5 billion but it was 1.5 billion narcissist consumerist parasites continuing to exploit and ruin the planet on a scale never seen before the Industrial Revolution
it's absolutely ponderous when people like Elon Musk bemoan "falling birth rates" when in fact the global population keeps rising ... the lament of pronatalists is entirely racist and classist, they only bemoan falling birth rates of educated, middle-to-upper class light-skinned people in First World nations and continue to promote obsolete concepts like tribalism / borders / nationalism, even though we all share the same atmosphere for better or worse
the fewer humans there are on the planet, the better the chance that each individual human gets to enjoy existence more, with less competition for resources and less of a human artificial imprint on things like climate which affect us all in any socioeconomic demographic ... even nimimal human populations of 500 million or 100 million would be better than 1 billion, and entire continents (e.g., the Americas) could revert to wilderness entirely
I do not believe procreation is a fundamental human right, and a constant, sustainable birthrate would be better, more rationally managed by the state itself, with every new cohort having a completely equitable and healthy upbringing and education geared toward maintaining the most pleasant collective existence for everyone even in the absence of old concepts such as families