@amgine And pollution. Microplastics and hormones are reducing the fertility of humans.@ErikUden
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Snowshadow (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 06:39:57 UTC Snowshadow -
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 06:39:56 UTC Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π @Snowshadow @amgine @ErikUden We're not having fewer kids because we can't.
We're having fewer kids because we have a living standard where we expect to be able to invest in the survival and thriving of our kids and ourselves, and where our kids aren't laborers earning resources for our old age.
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Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 06:39:59 UTC Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π Or, more sardonically, we don't have kids because they're expensive and we're busy.
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Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 06:40:01 UTC Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π Now we "just" need to reverse the trend of resource overconsumption by the global rich (all people in rich countries), and how to lift everyone else into the global rich without increasing their resource consumption fourfold or more.
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