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Originally Posted by August
Not that bad of an idea. Given a world population of 7 billion and climbing we need to stop rewarding people for having kids and start making them pay extra for the extra resources their offspring consume.
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Wrong. We need to frezze the growth of populations in poor underdeveloped countries wehre despite the ongoing starvation and the erosion of the land due to too much cattle getting held and where endless natural disasters haunt the land and the people, they nevertheless insist on having 6, 8, 10, even 16 children. In the longer run, these numbers of several billions in the poor countries need to be redc ued. Eithger we find ways to do it humanely, or nature will care for it in it's own ways. In the developed nations we need to find a way to stabilise our society's age structure, else our Western nations go down the drain due to overaging populations, or they lose their identity and cultural nature due to excessive migration of foreigners who sooner or later no longer stay a minority, but take over from the former owners of the "homeland". From that stability (to be reached) then we can start to redesign our communities and economic structures to tailor them so that they stay functional even with smaller sizes and smaller workforces.
This insane concept of unlimited growth in each and every regard, needs to be skipped. Dynamically fluctuating stability and "Nachhaltigkeit" are much-much-much more important.
The Chinese had a strict one-child policy (still have?). It now backfires on them for various reasons different from mere population size. It has caused mssaive distortions in their society's age structure. I also recommend to study the excessive social distortions in Japanese society. It is a cultural and social drama they have in Japan. I read comments by sociological researchers saying the chnage in their sopcial structures caused by modenr socviety since WWII does more long-term damage to thecom munal integrity then WWII's loss of lives and overall destruction.
My old mentor and trainer, a Japanese, said the same. His family was scattered around the whole globe as well due to the distortions caused by the war, and then the modernisation of traditional society. Their whole middle class is desintegrating.