The case for national paid maternity leave

Re:The case for national paid maternity leave by dominotw on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:43PM (#23227440)

> if we want the next generation of Americans to have happy, healthy childhoods,

Then we should stop having children and let people from high growth countries immigrate here.

I don't see adding more carbon by increasing the planet's population is providing the next generation "healthy childhoods"

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Re:The case for national paid maternity leave by elindbe2 on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:42PM (#23230821)

If your goal is carbon reduction, then allowing people to immigrate is almost as bad as people reproducing. Someone coming from Mexico or Vietnam or Nigeria coming here will likely produce way more CO2 than if they remain in their country of origin. Reducing the total western world population should be the goal.

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Re:The case for national paid maternity leave by dominotw on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:13AM (#23234472)

> we should stop having children and let people from high growth countries immigrate here.

Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. Why did you ignore first part of the sentence and just address the second part.

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Re:The case for national paid maternity leave by elindbe2 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:50PM (#23264082)

I didn't ignore it at all. The point is that allowing people to immigrate in place of having children would do very little to reduce carbon output of Western countries. Stopping both would be required.

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