Slow the population boom, consumption, resource depletion, and ecological disasters.
Make sure kids have the proper environment to succeed, etc.
real ecofash hours when we start talking about "too much population" and not consumption
Slow the population boom, consumption, resource depletion, and ecological disasters.
Isn’t the fact that the US has 5% of the world’s population and consumes a quarter of the world’s energy proof that population size is not the problem?
Feel like it’s been a while since the last “eugenics but woke” post.
This is the worst idea. It would be eugenics in any country but because it's the United States it's even fucking worse. "Make sure kids have the proper environment to succeed" just means don't let poor people breed.
I don't think those will actually have the greatest impact. I don't have a source on hand, but as I understand it women in the US actually want more children. Stress from work and finances are holding people back from living the life they want.
These measures are important, but they're one side of the coin to liberating women. The other is attacking capitalism.
The end goal isn't less children. It's raising however many children you want, doing it well, creating a good future for them, and ensuring it doesn't come at the expense of others.
You mean like they'll kill offspring (and not just tax the hell out of the family)?
- it wouldnt work very well. Good luck gettinf chud cops to go along with this unless youre targetinf brown people
- this would literally only affect minorities
- soith carolina had a board of eugenics untilthe 1980s, you might need to deprogram that shit from your brain, because it clearly was never discouraged in the US
I don't even think the US is having a population boom. Birth rates are low growth, 0.35% between 2019 and 2020, at best and most demographic growth is due to migrant communities. If we're ever gonna do the great replacement we've got to get these rookie numbers up.
No let's just build schools and pay teachers and put apartments where the strip mall is and wind turbines where the nothing is
No, there's plenty for everyone to have the "proper environment to succeed." Redistribute the wealth sucked up by the few and then we'll talk.
Malthusianism isn't real. Demographics are.
We can build more housing, grow more food, etc. There is no real concern of hitting a numerical upper limit in the population we can support. What matters is "can we provide for everyone at this moment".
For China, rapid population growth would have been an enormous resource strain they couldn't afford at the time. Limiting births reduced population growth, but it also reduced the size of young generations. China now has a large population that will one day retire, leaving a disproportionately small workforce. This will make it hard to support them. Not too many people, but too few.
This problem has already occured in some Western nations. Here it wasn't state enforced policy, but more "natural" changes in demographics. It's overburdening the what Welfare systems do exist.
Reducing the workforce is not how we reinvent the nation along sustainable lines of development. That's actually going to take a lot of work. What will get us out of this climate crisis isn't the individual decision or compulsion to consume and do less, but a restructuring of our society.
two-child policy
yes
means-tested child-rearing opportunity
no, gross
