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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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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.
Population reduction is already in force because guillotine day isn't coming. The whole peril of climate change is that is renders large developed regions and concentrations of people impossible to sustain. But our inability to curb emissions isn't a consequence of our sheer quantity of people. It is deliberately obstructed by profit-seeking actors in the highest reaches of authority.
You can kill every Gazan, bomb out every Ukrainian or Russian city, and massacre humanity along the length and breadth of the US-Mexico border. It won't curb emissions because these aren't the people burning all the fossil fuels.