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I agree we should help curb down our fertility rate worldwide. However this would take at least 50 years before it starts showing effect. It's too long a time when facing an environmental emergency.


Fertility rate is already decreasing fast, worldwide. The environment problem today is due to the carbon footprint of the rich, not of the majority.


Well, the aspiration is for most countries citizens' to have the same amenities as the rich.

Who are we to tell developing countries they can't have a TV, computer, phone, lights, washer/dryer, refrigerator, and HVAC in every home?


Not in Africa though, which will probably multiply its population by 4 to 1Ghab by the end of the century.

Also their environmental footprint will multiply by a lot more than 4.




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