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Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by NotPaidToPost on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:52AM (#20069471)
China helped themselves and the world massively with the one child policy, which arguably would have been impossible in a 'free country'.

In the meantime we're 7 billions and projected to reach 11 billions by the end of the century. We already can't seem to protect the environment today so I'm not holding my breath with a 40% population increase.

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Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by CinchWrench on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:25AM (#20069620)
Not everyone shares your value system. (I do, but that's beside the point.)

You never know when the person you're responding to might be Pentti Linkola.

Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by NotPaidToPost on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:43AM (#20069719)
I'm obviously not Pentti Linkola, nor do I prefer or support dictatorship.

The point is that we're told that we are in a climate an environmental emergency situation. But what are the emergency measures we take to respond to that? Nothing. Oh yes we want to ban plastic straws...

We are not doing anything now and the situation can only become much worse with the projected population growth (which is one of the root causes of our environmental problems).

This is the reality.

Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by lyxsus1 on Saturday June 01, 2019 @03:58PM (#20071267)
So what if he is? Humanity can cover whole planet in asphalt and survive.
Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by NotPaidToPost on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:34AM (#20069677)
Of course the policy has sometimes been harshly enforced, which, again, is something that could not happen in a 'free country'.

But let's remove our pink tinted glasses. The reality is equally harsh: The WHO forecasts 250,000 extra deaths _a year_ between 2030 and 2050 because of climate change [0].

You're quite obviously misrepresenting what I wrote when you immediately equal it to "murdering people"...

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...

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Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by komali2 on Saturday June 01, 2019 @01:06PM (#20070147)
China no longer enforces one child policy in most places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy?wprov=sfla1

Abortion is not murder.

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Re:Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance' by dang on Saturday June 01, 2019 @07:14PM (#20072367)
"Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html