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Old 03-07-2019, 01:56 PM   #43 (permalink)
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That's what I'm getting at freebeard; that we don't need to abandon all freedom and prosperity to dial back the outdoor thermostat. There's already mechanisms in play to counteract the problems we face.

Rather than a communist idea like enforcing a 1-child policy, we could simply make IUDs free to those that want them... or just wait 5 years for VR to begin to tank reproduction. Heck, in 20 years we'll consider VR to be a basic human right and provide free VR to the homeless, or whatever equivalent we have in the future.
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