"So as far as controlling the means of reproduction, you can say that in the rich countries at least, women have been 'on strike,' or are at least maintaining a 'work slow-down'.”
My sincere congratulations to all countries whose citizens-women OR men-have decided to reduce the number of children they bring into this world to below replacement levels!. We don’t have the resources to continue population growth.
In fact, we’ve been producing too many offspring for a long, long time.
Take water, for just one example. You think we have droughts? I think we have plenty of water, but too many people using it!
Look back at the 2015 California drought, for example:
“APRIL 1, 2015 5:55 AM PT
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Reporting from Phillips, Calif. — Standing in a brown field that would normally be smothered in several feet of snow, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered cities and towns across California to cut water use by 25% as part of a sweeping set of mandatory drought restrictions, the first in state history”
Now, imagine what the situation would be had we chosen to have slightly smaller families a few years prior to 2015-enough smaller that the population that year had been 25% smaller than it turned out to be. Suddenly, there would have been enough water that, for all practical purposes, there would BE no drought. The 25% water use cut would not have been needed.
Better yet, if we’d kept our fertility level at 2.1 for a few decades in the 20th century, the entire state-thanks to governor Brown's Daddy-would have been having water surpluses in 2015.
Conversely, imagine the water shortages we’d be having RIGHT NOW, if California residents had chosen fertility rates that had resulted in a population double, or triple, what it is now. Imagine what kind of water conservation measures Brown would have had to make! Oh, what the hell? Let’s just reduce all water use by, say, 3/4, instead of 1/4.
My sincere congratulations to all countries whose citizens-women OR men-have decided to reduce the number of children they bring into this world to below replacement levels!. We don’t have the resources to continue population growth.
In fact, we’ve been producing too many offspring for a long, long time.
Take water, for just one example. You think we have droughts? I think we have plenty of water, but too many people using it!
Look back at the 2015 California drought, for example:
“APRIL 1, 2015 5:55 AM PT
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Reporting from Phillips, Calif. — Standing in a brown field that would normally be smothered in several feet of snow, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered cities and towns across California to cut water use by 25% as part of a sweeping set of mandatory drought restrictions, the first in state history”
Now, imagine what the situation would be had we chosen to have slightly smaller families a few years prior to 2015-enough smaller that the population that year had been 25% smaller than it turned out to be. Suddenly, there would have been enough water that, for all practical purposes, there would BE no drought. The 25% water use cut would not have been needed.
Better yet, if we’d kept our fertility level at 2.1 for a few decades in the 20th century, the entire state-thanks to governor Brown's Daddy-would have been having water surpluses in 2015.
Conversely, imagine the water shortages we’d be having RIGHT NOW, if California residents had chosen fertility rates that had resulted in a population double, or triple, what it is now. Imagine what kind of water conservation measures Brown would have had to make! Oh, what the hell? Let’s just reduce all water use by, say, 3/4, instead of 1/4.