All of the above. People need to stop having huge families (like the Duggars and other religiots of that variety), we need to cut carbon consumption, and we need to help raise the education level of women around the world. That last doesnt seem connected to the two former, but it has been shown consistently that as women stay in school longer, they put off having children and are more likely to use birth control to space out the fewer children they have. This also means HEALTHIER children, since the womans body has time to recover the vitamins and minerals necessary for her next infant to be healthy, as well. Also, women who economic contributors to the family have more control over their lives, so their husbands are less likely to be able to intimidate them into having 20 children - and would be reluctant to give up the income shes bringing home. But seriously, folks, any people who have more than 2 biological children should NOT be receiving tax credits and benefits for it. The only way, realistically, to slow down climate change, environmental destruction, and species extinction, is to CUT DOWN ON THE NUMBER OF HUMANS ON THE PLANET. A good plague that takes out a lot of humans would probably do the planet a great deal of good, to be brutally honest, but since were doing our best to keep that from happening, we need to do a better job of controlling our reproduction to reduce our numbers. A group called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement actually has some great ideas in that direction, I just dont think we have to necessarily doom ourselves to extinction too. However, as fewer people have children, ideally, the few there are will be more treasured and cared for. There will be more resources to care for them, meaning more children will survive childhood and have healthy, productive lives. We can tear down the megalopolises and go back to a more town-centered life, surrounded by nature in all her glory, surrounded by people we KNOW. We could centralize, that is, we could pull back from the most environmentally-damaged parts of the planet to let them recover, and let places such as Hawaii and Madagascar return entirely to the wild, possibly with a few animal biologists and others on site to help in the reproduction of some of the more endangered species. We could shut down all nuclear devices, including power plants, as we switch to cleaner fuels, such as solar, wind, and geothermal sources. Clean air would become the NORM again.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:44:01 +0000
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