Some of those scaremongers are straight up fascists who are terrified of white people becoming a minority.
Putting the racists aside for a moment, the basis for our economic system is infinite growth. Consumption, and thus demand, must always rise, and therefore the number of consumers must also rise. The line must go up. Support and funding for the services you mentioned, such as healthcare and education, has not risen relative GDP, but corporate subsidies have. The line must go up.
The current scare campaign appeals to some warped form of moral duty. Increasing funding for these services which make having a child more appealing on a practical level might cut into the subsidies, and the line must go up, so they approach the problem from a different perspective.
My daughter is due in January, and sometimes I become terrified of the world sheāll grow up into. But, the line must go up.
The fertility rate in 2.3 now and when it gets to 2.1 that will maintain equilibrium, after that the numbers will go down. I have plastic in my testicles and the average sperm count around the world is falling all the time. We also may have reached peak oil and there is no way 9 billion people get to live without oil.
The final result was that forest, plants and soil ā as a net category ā absorbed almost no carbon.
This is an important distinction. But this article is getting a lot of attention so donāt mind the click-baity headline. People need to know how quickly things are breaking down.
The CO2 level increased 3.51 ppm last year and that was ~ 80% increase on the previous year. And that is alarming enough.
Wimmera sooking that they havenāt had enough rain.
Canātā¦get my head around that.
Maybe the rain has been taking a sharp right turn.
Whatever, strap in, Wimmeraā¦if you think this has been a lean yearā¦
