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What's So Terrible About Kids?
Is it cold in here?:
You do that very well. Psychiatrists should pay you to build their practices by inducing depression :-)
sitnspin:
I would argue that no matter how much you teach the kid to not be a pollution producing machine, the mere existence of an increase population is a resource drain. No matter how efficient we get, the presence of this many people on the planet is rapidly depleting valuable resources. Having one kid, not a big issue. If everyone just had one kid, fine, but that is simply not the case. We have people popping out eight kids like a damn clown car. And, like I said, there are millions of kids growing up with no family. Given the situation, I see very little justification for having children.
As for moving off world, the reason to do that has little do with saving the planet. The reason to move off world is to avoid having the species wiped out by a cataclysmic event. Don't have all your eggs in one basket. The more spread out we are in the universe, the less vulnerable the species is to extinction.
Method of Madness:
Actually, having a kid isn't necessarily a resource drain. If that kid is not only efficient himself, but convinces others to be efficient as well, the resources he saves could easily be more than he consumes himself.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 08 Jan 2013, 20:15 ---Actually, having a kid isn't necessarily a resource drain. If that kid is not only efficient himself, but convinces others to be efficient as well, the resources he saves could easily be more than he consumes himself.
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Theoretically possible, granted, but highly unlikely.
pwhodges:
Also not very scalable.
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