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Re:COP21: Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to... by vixen99 on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:50PM (#13302831)
Europeans are currently doing their best to follow your advice. Their average fertility rate was 1.58 in 2014 with Portugal at 1.2. The world average is around 2.3 which happens to be the rate at which population growth is around zero.

Individual judgement? Do we imagine some couples saying to themselves "We're not up to much genetically-speaking so - we'd better not have any kids"?

Re:COP21: Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to... by trymas on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:19PM (#13303108)
> Individual judgement? Do we imagine some couples saying to themselves "We're not up to much genetically-speaking so - we'd better not have any kids"?

I think that global 1 child policy would be harsh [0], though, for the lack of better term, a 'perfect' medium between 'no child at all' policy and "increase human population until it's destruction" scenario.

In perfect case couple would have up to 1 offspring, thus global medium would be something like 0.9 or 0.8, or even less. Which will reduce global population by half in 50 years.

[0] It's harsh, though would be right thing to do so we will not proliferate and consume ourselves to the point of global destruction.