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[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok just so I’m not misunderstanding you, are you saying we should jail people who have kids? I feel like I’m not following the thread of your point here and I think it is very unlikely that is what you’re saying. But it’s kind of coming across that way in your comment.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. We need a fertility rate of about 0.01 for several decades, because human overpopulation is the root cause and biggest cause of catastrophic climate change:

If we choose not to vote in parties to make such laws, we'll be culpable in letting the anthropocene extinction event become a mass-extinction event - wiping out more than 50% of genera and more than 70% of species. If you think too few honey bees are bad, imagine how catastrophic it would be for most living species to go extinct, including almost all the small life forms in the oceans which provide the majority of the biosphere's oxygen.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’m still hung up on the whole “criminalizing having children” thing.