Reply #8: World-wide birth tax

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If you have a baby, you pay to the UN (or some other body) some significant percentage of your annual income for that year.

Although that would lead to terrible massive amounts of abortion and childkilling, so that's not a good idea, becuase the other option of forcing them to offer the kids for adoption also doesn't work, since they're still there, and not enough people to adopt them anyway.

Or maybe, for a generation or two, we need a world-wide ban on more than one child in the family. That'll cut the population down.

or get more people to just stop having so damn many babies out of a sense of respect for the earth and their fellow human beings,a nd not to be so selfish about their use of resources by bringing another human into the world.

There really aren't any good answers, except to rewire people's minds (and cultures and societies) into NOT thinking that we should have lots and lots of babies.