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  • Wealthy nations decreasing consumption will have a knock on effect on habitat loss in South America for example, where a shit ton of rainforest is being killed to make pastures for beef that’s exported.

    Poorer nation’s peak population estimates are declining every year, as life gets better and child mortality falls population growth lowers everywhere (another racist shit that’s spreading that poor nations are reproducing too much, btw).

    Energy consumption is more or less useless measure with the rapid rise of renewables, although there are also efforts there to lower that everywhere.




  • I would recommend reading the Baby decision to people. It’s a very open minded examination, despite what the title might implicate also very open and supportive for childless/childfree mindset. Even touches topics like, just because you like kids, doesn’t mean you have to have them, you can teach, volunteer for after school activities, etc.

    I think the single most important take away from it is that whether you decide to have kid(s) or not, you give something up.

    You also have to go into it responsibly and it’s also okay to reevaluate as you go along, e.g. just because you wanted 3 kids before getting married, doesn’t mean you can’t take a moment to reevaluate after the first if you still want that.






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    You don’t need to cure cancer, you need to be able to prevent it in the first place.

    Ofc this is following the metaphor, for actual cancer you need both.

    For student loans you need to fix the system, higher education in Europe is free, but it really isn’t, you pay for your education over your lifetime by earning more money with your higher education and thus paying more in taxes and social security.

    Ofc it’s not a perfect system, but much better than having young idiots be purposely exposed to predatory lending.