this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
478 points (99.2% liked)

World News

38188 readers
1978 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Humans are what are causing the mess, and you want to add more of them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The earth does not care much about climate change, nor about humans. Nature will bounce back eventually. It always did.

Bringing kids into this world, who are educated and adapted will help humanity, not the earth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

only if their parents care enough to make sure they are educated and smart. we don't need more stupid people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Good point. I guess the problem is that with humans it's always quantity over quality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The "problem" being that the more educated people are, the fewer children they have and that's a correlation that actually holds pretty well.

The whole "people should have more children and make sure they are educated and smart" is self-contradictory: it's either more kids lower-education or fewer kids higher-education.

It's magical thinking to expect that the people capable of "making sure they're educated and smart" will have many children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Humans and our cultural diversity are part of biodiversity which makes life beautiful, it's about balance. A longterm goal should be to save more space for other species, but we need educated young people to keep knowledge and tackle the legacy of the mess (among much else) left by their ancestors.