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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:51PM (#24414535)
Let's re-state it to a person enjoying life in a developed country, especially for many on this forum, would pay it forward by not having kids due to their level of consumption.

We know the culprit is excess consumption of fossil fuels among other resources, and we know if people have the option of consuming them, they will. Therefore, you can generalize it to mean reducing the population of people who may be in a position to consume at levels similar to the personal car, single family home with a yard family, driving 15,000 miles per year would help the planet.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:20PM (#24416158)
From a biological standpoint, those individuals are simply culling their own genes from the gene pool and therefore effectively evolutionally selecting for people who want to have children, causing the exact opposite of what they want. Rather ironic.
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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by Firadeoclus on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:15AM (#24420161)
Considering how birth rates have dropped across the globe over the last century, it clearly isn't dominated by genetic factors. Wanting to have children is far more memetic than genetic.
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