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In reply to the discussion: Do you enjoy beef? You're directly contributing to climate change. Beef is the new SUV. [View all]Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)I stand by everything I said. The world in whole is increasing in population, regardless of regional trends. The world is already signfigantly overpopulated. Therefore, people should think about world population trends (not regional trends) when deciding to have kids. I have fully aware that many western countries are currently having no population growth (or even negative population growth in some European countries). That is completely irrelevant to me, because ultimately we are citizens of the world, not individual countries.
And about social security, that's an economic country. The environment is more important than the economy. If the environment goes to hell, what's the point of the economy? We will just have to work longer (or make massive life changes) to make up the difference.