[ SECRET POST #3246 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3246 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Should there be a moral obligation for humanity to have less kids?

[ketita]

What people often ignore is that in the First World, population growth is indeed dropping. In most societies, actually, more options, education, and growth opportunities combined with access to healthcare and contraceptives acts as a *natural* limiter on population size.
Also, remember that a sudden drop in kids is actually a bad thing for most economies these days; it's the wages of the future that will pay for us when we're old. Countries face aging populations without the ability or the funds to support them. There need to be some changes to the system, where we are currently in debt to the future, in order to successfully cut back on population size without it sucking hard for all of us in a few decades.

Re: Should there be a moral obligation for humanity to have less kids?

[a_potato]

Excellent points, all.

And this: "Also, remember that a sudden drop in kids is actually a bad thing for most economies these days; it's the wages of the future that will pay for us when we're old. Countries face aging populations without the ability or the funds to support them" is so important, and something that people tend not to think about.

Re: Should there be a moral obligation for humanity to have less kids?

[ketita]

Yep.
I'm in Asian studies, and already you can see some Asian countries who are trying to encourage having children, because they're already seeing the writing on the wall with shrinking workforces.
An addendum is that people today also live longer past retirement, and those are a lot of years that need to be paid for by somebody.

It just bugs me when people say "just stop having kids!" when the problem is a lot more complex than that.
Really, the best thing to do is work on making contraceptives universally available, and improving conditions worldwide, while trying to move in a more sustainable direction globally.