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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by devit on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:09AM (#20402677)
The solution is probably to have the state or child-raising corporations pay people to have children instead of the current model where 1-2 parents raise a child.

Not having children at all and intentionally extinguishing humans is also a possibly optimal, albeit more radical, solution.

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by ovi256 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:35AM (#20409770)
Since the demographic transition started (first in France, after the French revolution) humans have been selected for resistance to anti-natalist ideas. Literally only people with some resistance to them perpetuate their genes!

Empirical proof can be seen in the ever-increasing proportion of large families.

Natural selection is hard at work picking the exact opposite of what anti-natalists want.

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by devit on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:51AM (#20410570)
Yes, obviously, hence the idea to make childbirth something that is done because the person is paid by the state or a corporation, so that the genes that are spread are not related to the willingness to raise a child.
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