celticelk
Well-Known Member
This is a liberal agenda at cross purposes. The increased CO2 emissions are a function of increasing world population.
God forbid anyone suggest we limit childbirth (like China) in order to control the damage to our environment! Liberals would just love that.
Reducing the population would certainly be one way to reduce CO2 emissions, at least in the short term. It'd be difficult to make it stick, partly because you'd have to enforce the limit pretty harshly, which is just not a good solution from anybody's perspective, and partly because fewer people means less demand means lower prices for fossil fuels, which is going to tend to *increase* per-capita usage. There are other reasons apart from climate change to support a reduced human population en route to a more sustainable humanity, though I certainly wouldn't advocate a child cap, for reasons of both liberty and efficiency. Given the strong correlation between advanced industrial economies and lower birth rates, improved education and sustainable economic development seem like a much better strategy.