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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

But its not just not increasing, it is decreasing, more older people less younger people will lead to a million other problems aswell. And who but young people actually try to improve the world, is the next generation and educating them well not the best and easiest way to shape tomorrow?

And don't make it so simple you know its not, humans don't just suck or are just bad or good, they are the result of uncountable amount of factors. If 100% of humanity would vote for trump it would show a big issue but the root of that issue isn't just that humans suck, and thinking that way is just giving into your negative feelings and doesn't improve the situation at all. Cheering on population collapse is ridiculous, should we really just stop existing if we could easily have some balls and make it work. A great future is possible loosing that hope is giving up out of weakness

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Currently, the US spends $5k per child and $29k per septuagenarian annually. Also, the average voting age in primaries is 72. We are living in a gerontocracy, because old people take children for granted, so much so that they’re enthusiastic about their government rounding up immigrant children, toddlers, and trafficking them out of the country.

    My point is that if we had fewer children for a few generations, maybe it would adjust people’s selfish and animalistic priorities. Fast fashion, meat eating, celebrity worship. That’s what the most prosperous people in the world are all about. I want fewer of them on this planet because we are using 20 times the resources available and most people are poor anyway — until such a time as we establish a path to sustainability.

    Or do you enjoy reading about dolphins boiling alive in rivers during record heatwaves? What even is the point of having more than a billion people on this rock if we can’t be bothered to feed them? Like what is your game plan here?

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