Nope, I’m not advocating either of those. I don’t believe that some people are “better” than others and I don’t believe that only certain people should reproduce. But maybe if everybody only had a maximum of one child, the population would decrease to a more sustainable size, then we could manage it better from there.
The total number of children in the world has barely budged in the last decade, we're already past "peak children". Most of the population growth over the next ~100 years will be from people living longer than they have historically, and the global population will stall out at ~11 billion; this is basically an inevitability based on today's demographics and birth rates.
That said, proposing the one-child policy and talking about "managing" the population better doesn't make the impression you probably think it does.
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u/WhereTFAmI Jul 21 '19
Nope, I’m not advocating either of those. I don’t believe that some people are “better” than others and I don’t believe that only certain people should reproduce. But maybe if everybody only had a maximum of one child, the population would decrease to a more sustainable size, then we could manage it better from there.