Literally the opposite of this is true. Not having kids is one of the single best things you can do for the planet.
(Still want to raise a child? Adopt! There are so many kids out there looking for good homes and people who will love and care for them)
Not entirely accurate. Shit hits the fan before this changes too much and we are in much debt. Also infrastructure is somewhat of a fixed cost. I.e. being fewer people does not reduce infrastructure emissions.
Antinatalism isn’t ab answer to the problem, but might be a reasonable reaction.
That being said I do not want to advocate for having more children or put the blame for the systemic issues on the individuals suffering from them.
some infrastructure, but by no means all. But I think my stance has always been closer to “if they wanted me to bring in additional players, they should’ve made the game more fun to play”
Population decline will be the socio-economic epoch which finally puts an end to obligate growth capitalism, and the initial demographic crisis will force us to reprioritize how we use resources and technology to support aging populations. Historical materialism goes brrrrrr.
Refusing to make children for the capitalist machine is just good praxis.
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For the time being, most countries can get a younger population by letting in immigrants (who are statistically younger). Would probably result in a softer landing than otherwise.
Debt and money are make-believe anyway. Just tokens in a game we play called capitalism.
I’m not sure about the infrastructure claim. Generally, if infrastructure is used less, it requires less maintenance.
50% of all habital land is already being used by humans and being degraded, which doesn’t seem sustainable, especially since so much of the world still lives in poverty. World population doubles every 61 years, so it seems like it would be nearly impossible to stay on the current trajectory for much longer.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
Reads and rails tend to have a lifetime due to freeze/that cycles and weather/Vegetation unless heavily frequented. A dam does not get easier to maintain because fewer people use it’s water etc. The external burden of mining does not get easier to maintain (groundwater, general loss of height above sea level). Same goes for electricity grids that try to reach everyone. But a 4 lane super highway is easily downgraded to a 1 lane highway.
the thing is, while not having babies is good for the planet, it is really bad or even a huge crisis for the economy depending on how it is set up as most economies are set up so that you people take care of the old
Please consider kids in foster care before adopting. Adoption is a huge problem in the USA and doesn’t always consider the child’s needs over the potential buyers. ); <3
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They Live. It’s a great movie. You should see it if you have a chance.
If for nothing else than the fight scene that made high as fuck me question reality
Yeah, I could see going into that fight scene super high and losing your fucking mind.
Like, this is my life now. This fight scene will not end, ever. Just Roddy Piper and Keith David punching each other, forever.
That’s exactly what I felt like lol. It just kept going, I couldn’t believe it, I thought I was in a loop or something
We could just let people with babies immigrate into the country easily instead of forcing people already here to have extra.
Oh wait that’s not the right kind of baby? Weird.
How will you pay for them? Figure it out, loser!
Where will they live when the planet is actively killing us?
THATS THEIR PROBLEM!
It’s your fault for not being heir to an apartheid-era emerald mine fortune, really. Should have chosen better parents.
OBEY
CONSUME
REPRODUCE
Elon musk is just firing more and more people. What he want these kids to be? Steve Jobless?
He wants people to give him money, not the other way around.
He and his dad have a pregnancy thing. They both have some weird breeding fetish
I would like to ask that woman if she is pregnant right now. If not, call her a hypocrite
You’d need to know if she is having unproctected sex. Exclusively unprotected. And no birth control. Babies can’t happen if she’s taking birth control.
“Are you currently being pumped full of hot man juice deep into your vagina?”
Socially UNacceptable:
“I’m getting hot sticky, messy cream pies deep in me every night, just literally filling my cunt with as much cum as I possibly can.”
Socially acceptable: “ I’m trying for a baby”.
With her cap saying “ProLife”, you know she is a religious zealot that’s against scientific progress like birth control.
Pls refill workforce
No, we aren’t paying you a living wage to make it feasible
Juck get fucked
I feel like at this point you could just do the opposite of whatever old musky says and you’d be doing pretty alright for yourself.
Can’t wait for my vasectomy next week
oh i’m having sex, non procreative, that is
decades of don’t have kids if you can’t afford them and now it’s “have kids! They yearn for the mines!”
I’m sure what humanity needs is checks notes more humans, because we dont have enough problems .
i looked them up, this is a DIAPER AD
Make more babies to be sacrificed to feed the Capital God
I won’t say the people who took the picture (especially not Musk in the tweet) have good intentions but whatever economic system we live in, we need people to work to meet each other’s needs e.g take care of older people though? Kids will be demanded by any system.
You need people to do things, absolutely. You need to take care of old people.
Do you need to have insurance agents? Do you need marketing, or the tax industry, or Wall Street, or managers? Do you need a sales department or an accountant? Do you need lawyers for 95% of the thing lawyers do? Do we need 4 different fast food restaurants in every shopping center?
I’d go so far as to say most jobs today aren’t necessary. They’re invented by humans to do abstract things that affect how humans interact and organize. Or, they’re only necessary because of this arbitrary organization
They’re also based on centuries of tradition and/or negotiation rather than intentional design, which means we spend a lot of unnecessary time navigating it.
I don’t think we’re ready to go without this kind of bureaucracy, because the pressures of late stage capitalism has done a real number on us all. Maybe in a couple generations. But a properly designed system would most certainly free up a hell of a lot of time to care for our elders
I feel like Elon and has this one covered
