• @regdog@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    Any advanced society should be able to acknowledge that population growth must not outpace the available resources. Or else there will be Bad Times For All

    • There are more houses/apartments than people.
      There is more food going to the trash than what we need.

      It’s not that we have a lot of people. The problem is the greed of a few and the complacency/idiocy of the rest.

      • @booly@sh.itjust.works
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, having kids probably reduced my household resource consumption, compared to the dual income no kid lifestyle that my wife and I had before kids.

        Population growth is so far disconnected from resource consumption, because people’s resource consumption does not resemble a bell curve. A private jet produces more CO2 in an hour (about 2 tonnes) than the average Indian produces in a year (about 1.9 tonnes).

        The poor people having children aren’t destroying the planet. Rich people, childless or not, are. (And yes, I acknowledge that I fall under the “rich” category here.)