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The median Indian resident produces carbon under the threshold for a sustainable climate. And that country has some of the highest population growth in the world. Babies aren't the reason your carbon footprint is high. Coal fired power plants and ICE powered automobiles and AI data centers are what's driving up the emissions rate.
The emissions of a single household are minuscule relative to the emissions of international industry. Not having a child will do nothing to discourage Andressen Horowitz or Jack Ma from shoving another billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere in pursuit of a larger ROI.
We need fewer billionaires.
The carbon footprint of having a child will depend on the family it's being born into, for sure. I don't know jack about the median Indian resident, but I'm fairly confident that their carbon footprint is higher than zero, so even looking at them as a best case scenario, reduction is still beneficial. And the emissions of industries will reduce alongside the population they target and workforce they deploy.
Yeah fuck that shit.
Yeah fuck those pieces of shit. Population reduction needs to happen in tandem with guillotine day, as you're 100% right that the damage they're doing is wildly beyond the scope of -any- decision you or I could make, good or bad.