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Re:The Ocean is Broken (2013) by pdonis on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:25PM (#7188719)
This counts as reducing human environmental impact (on Earth, at least), but I was asking specifically about ideas for reducing human population levels by a lot.
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Re:The Ocean is Broken (2013) by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:32PM (#7188738)
The answer is we don't, at least willingly. We should be optimistic rather than pessimistic.

The other answer is to get rich, which lowers birthrates faster than anything else. Beats a modest proposal.

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Re:The Ocean is Broken (2013) by pdonis on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:28AM (#7188880)
Just to be clear, I agree with being optimistic rather than pessimistic. I was just wondering if the poster I responded to would be willing to be explicit about how he thinks the reduction of population he claims is needed would be accomplished.
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