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In order to actually fight climate change, we should start by trying to reduce the population in the future. Less people = more resources per person.

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My version of this is to just sterilize 99% of the population at random, and keep sterilizing people in the future such that the world population is capped at 100 million.

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9 points

Of the rich? I’m in.

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Unfortunately, there’s not enough of them even 8f they do disproportionately more harm.

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How do you choose who gets genocided?

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Random, Thanos docet

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Obviously we kill all the people that think genocide would be a good thing. I can’t imagine a better future with all these maniacs among us!

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Thankfully you don’t seem like the type who could actually inspire or convince anyone to get behind your ridiculous ideas.

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Studies show that with improving living standards birth rates drop. There’s the suggestion that we wont exceed 11 billion people (https://issuu.com/habsboys/docs/habs_geo_mag21-6th_issu/s/13472380)

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While I agree with the sentiment, I don’t see a way to do it.

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Good news: its happening in developed countries already. South Korea’s birth rate in 2020 was 0.84 kids per woman. In order to keep population stable you need 2 births per woman. I think there is an imminent collapse in demographics that will be coming within the next 20-30 years.

Developing nations still have higher population growth but eventually itll all even out.

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It’s just very unrealistic… Look at China’s one child policy and all the other countries where decades of contraceptive push has only minor success.

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