In the name of climate change... Stop breeding

unsung
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http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160818

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  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    glad I read that time to get snipped! :lol:
  • Free
    Free Posts: 3,562
    This thread is for Brian Who has mentioned population before and how he does it affect climate change.
  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Of course ... the more people then the more resources that gets used.
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  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,380
    unsung said:

    http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160818

    Wack. Jobs.

    You can reduce carbon emissions by either reducing your carbon emissions per person, or by reducing the number of persons on the planet (or produce less of them). It's cold and calculated, but mathematically how can you say this is untrue?
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Let's start with the author. Lead by example.
  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    benjs said:

    unsung said:

    http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160818

    Wack. Jobs.

    You can reduce carbon emissions by either reducing your carbon emissions per person, or by reducing the number of persons on the planet (or produce less of them). It's cold and calculated, but mathematically how can you say this is untrue?
    Good luck with that ever happening ...
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

    "Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I'm for doing all of these:
    Reduce population
    Everyone reduce their energy consumption
    Increase use of cleaner alternatives

    It's not just as simple as ONE solution.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    So how do we reduce population?

    Wait, let me some popcorn, this should be good.
  • OffSheGoes35
    OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,517
    But what else are the Duggars gonna do on a Monday/Tues./Wed./ Thurs./Fri/Sat/Sunday morning, afternoon, night?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    unsung said:

    So how do we reduce population?

    Wait, let me some popcorn, this should be good.

    You forgot the cool aid.

    Seriously?
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Yes seriously.

    We can't get people to see ten minutes into the future to prepare and save for it. Instead it's an instant gratification society, so how do you propose they stop breeding?
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    unsung said:

    Yes seriously.

    We can't get people to see ten minutes into the future to prepare and save for it. Instead it's an instant gratification society, so how do you propose they stop breeding?

    The highly intelligent people might understand the need to curb mating, but the morons are going to hump away and spit out more morons.

    In effect, we'll be dummying down society.

    It sounds stupid and I say it tongue in cheek, but there's an element of truth here.
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  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    unsung said:

    Yes seriously.

    We can't get people to see ten minutes into the future to prepare and save for it. Instead it's an instant gratification society, so how do you propose they stop breeding?

    The highly intelligent people might understand the need to curb mating, but the morons are going to hump away and spit out more morons.

    In effect, we'll be dummying down society.

    It sounds stupid and I say it tongue in cheek, but there's an element of truth here.
    Idiocracy.


    It's already happening, hello republican nominee Trump!
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    Fundie morons forget multiplying is in the bible because there weren't that many people on the planet back then.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited August 2016
    Yes, yes and yes.

    unsung, you asked, "how do you propose they stop breeding?", Before you ask that I would ask the question, "How do we want to see human population fall off?" By our own will or by the laws of ecology? Because it will fall off, of that there is no doubt.

    Me, I suspect the latter is most likely. As a species, we obviously haven't learned to understand and live within the laws of nature, the laws of ecology: diversity of species, interdependence of species, and limits to resources. Easy as 1-2-3. We have at least neared- or more likely reached- carrying capacity and nature is up to bat.

    But that's no excuse to not try to use our will, time, money, energy to learn about and live within those laws. And how do we do that? Education, dissemination of information, putting into practice what we know.

    Or bludgeon everyone to death. We're good at that, eh? Not my choice, that's for sure.

    What else?

    Oh yeah, these little machines can spread a lot of information and influence all over the place and quick! We are doing it.
    Post edited by brianlux on
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    unsung said:

    Yes seriously.

    We can't get people to see ten minutes into the future to prepare and save for it. Instead it's an instant gratification society, so how do you propose they stop breeding?

    The highly intelligent people might understand the need to curb mating, but the morons are going to hump away and spit out more morons.

    In effect, we'll be dummying down society.

    It sounds stupid and I say it tongue in cheek, but there's an element of truth here.
    I agree. Let's do that, end civilization. All that would be left are the weak.

    Thankfully smart people realize that in order to ensure the future of mankind we must procreate. We just prefer to bring children into a world where they aren't riddled with debt in second they open their eyes.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    uhhh ... how are they wack jobs!?? ... what in the piece is problematic or false?
  • seanwon
    seanwon Posts: 598
    unsung said:

    So how do we reduce population?

    Wait, let me some popcorn, this should be good.

    Well we could start with not defunding Planned Parenthood, which helps women with sex education and contraception. We could stop trying to take sex education out of schools as well. Because the states doing this just happen to have the highest teen birth rates in the country. Top 5 states with the highest teen pregnancy rates:

    1.New Mexico - 80/1,000
    2. Mississippi – 76/1,000
    3. Texas – 73/1,000
    4. Arkansas – 73/1,000
    5. Louisiana – 69/1,000




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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,692
    edited August 2016
    unsung said:

    So how do we reduce population?

    Wait, let me some popcorn, this should be good.

    Some bacterial or viral outbreak will likely do it for us. But if not, on an international level, reducing the birth rate is the only way, and that is done through education and female empowerment (both of which would necessarily improve economies and standards of living, which is also needed), birth control.
    As for developed nations... I totally agree with the small-family concept. One or two kids is plenty. It's more and more expensive to properly raise kids every year anyhow. Most people can't afford more than two, if that. I personally can't afford any where I live, and I'm fine not contributing to the population.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    seanwon said:

    unsung said:

    So how do we reduce population?

    Wait, let me some popcorn, this should be good.

    Well we could start with not defunding Planned Parenthood, which helps women with sex education and contraception. We could stop trying to take sex education out of schools as well. Because the states doing this just happen to have the highest teen birth rates in the country. Top 5 states with the highest teen pregnancy rates:

    1.New Mexico - 80/1,000
    2. Mississippi – 76/1,000
    3. Texas – 73/1,000
    4. Arkansas – 73/1,000
    5. Louisiana – 69/1,000




    This! Bravo, seanwon!

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