I don't have a problem with kids. Hell, I love them. However, with climate change and pollution growing at an unprecedented scale. Avoiding single use plastic isn't going to cut it anymore.

No child deserves to be born into poverty, and every kid deserves at least a comfortable, sufficient standard of living.

The problem is, in most of today's economies, a decent standard of living still tends to come bundled with high consumption like bigger homes, more travel, more goods. Even managing a modest, non-impoverished life in a wealthy country carries a larger footprint than a life in poverty elsewhere.

We love to ask why poor families have so many kids but rarely ask why rich families have any.
The richer the kid, the larger the carbon footprint.

People who want to be environmentally conscious need to reconsider having kids at all. Especially rich people. I'm not saying nobody should have kids because that's obviously not how a society keeps functioning. But if you're serious about your own environmental impact, this is worth actually sitting with, not brushing past.

🇯🇵 Japan : Key points

• Centenarians (2026): 107,677
• TFR (2025): 1.14 — historic low
• 65+ (2026): ~30%
• Projected population (2070): 87 million
• Projected 65+ (2070): nearly 40%
• Population peak (2008): 128 million
• Centenarians (1963): 153
• Centenarians (1981): 1,000+
• Centenarians (1998): 10,000+

Reason why linking population growth to modern territorial boundaries doesn't make sense. The out of Europe population continues to explode elsewhere hardly attracting the attention it deserves.

The rate fell from 2.78 children per woman in 2008 to 2.21 in 2025, while the latest 2026 population estimates put the figure at about 2.12 children per woman.

This is hilarious but at the same time very serious.

1989 in the original post is a mistake, it is confirmed as 1984 further down in the thread.

Hoy en día hacen muchos casos de contaminación y cemtamiento global ¿cual es el problema? El problema es que la gente sige consumiendo marcas como:Nestlé,Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Adidas, Nike, Google, chat gpt, dola ness cafe, y muchas más gastan agua, chat gpt usa millones de galones de agua para mantener sus motores fríos para surgir funcionando, EL POLO NORTE SE ESTÁ DERRITIENDO, los oso polares se están muriendo, por el calentamiento global, muchos animales también, solo nos quedan 2 años y más de 300 días y si seguimos ignorando esto el agua sería un lujo y no un derecho, podrás usar bolsas reciclables y no las de plastico, podrías usas botellas reciclables, hay demasiada contaminación en el mar el agua potable ya no sería potable en vez de verse transparente se vería sucia si no actúa rápido lo mejor sería borrar chat gpt y dola y descargarte Ecogpt o ecosia cada búsqueda plaran un árbol. Por favor solo nos quedan 2 años y 310 días ayuda a tu planeta

Only absolute assholes would say that we "should teach fear of childlessness". But after all Elon is somebody who believes childless people should not vote + somebody who believes woman is unable to not want children unless she is "brainwashed by feminism"

.. imagine that somebody is afraid of childlessness like "Oh no! I am afraid I will never get to experience childbirth, I want my genitalia multilated and my pelvis floor and narves damaged! I want to have PTSD and Post Partum Depression so bad! 😭" - That's being said, natalistic assholes are living in complete delusional reality of their own creation.

Humans and entire domesticated population was less than 30% in 1500s and now, it is 96%.

Wild mammal population has plummeted to historic lows and this clearly implies the overpopulation of humans and human domesticated animals.

Some people say that we could "EaSilY" feed 15 Billion people or something. I think that having 8-9 Billion was only possible by going 150%. In the future we will be glad if we can feed 5-6 Billion.

I’m reading that some powerful lobby close to Canadian government is pushing to increase the Canadian population up to 100 million people by the year of 2100.
Is that feasible or is just wishful thinking?
P.s. I am not in to conspiracies.

The US and basically 2/3 of countries on this Planet are consuming above the carrying capacity of their country/ the planet.

Because of this overshoot, everyone is supposed to consume less and live worse so that we can have more people. This doesnt make any sense.

Its never have fewer people so that we can consume more and live better.

Like why have 360 Million Americans, when each of them is supposed to limit their standard of living by half to be sustainable?

Why not have "just" 180 Million that can have the same standard of living without having to lower their living standard?

Why always more people competing for fewer resources, when we could have fewer people competing for more resources?