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Do You Want More People In The World or More Natural Resources?
Race, gender, equality, and life balance are all factors
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
It matters to most of us how much Earth we have left
Even if your low-lying city, New York, Bangladesh, Bangkok, or Miami is not yet flooded with desperate people and water, or even if you are running out of water as the mega-drought US Pacific Coast, and much of North Africa, you will care about these issues in the future that may not affect you at the moment.
Pro-natalist movements, — to increase the population — are being born across the world.
Many nations, especially with authoritarian-leaning leaders, want women to stay home and have more babies. The right kind of babies.
The cost of having kids has never been brought up in these fearful articles about a dystopian depopulated globe.
In addition to stoked fears about inevitable migration during the climate crisis, there is an economic threat (to pro-natalists) that you might not want the burden and cost of raising a pack of warehouse workers for their profits later on.