André Staltz on Nostr: One of the worst climate activist myths spread is "having kids is bad for the ...
One of the worst climate activist myths spread is "having kids is bad for the climate". It is technically as true as saying "refusing to suicide is bad for the climate".
Population growth is (unintuitively) caused by swelling the demographic pyramid in the older ages over decades, not by a massive increase in kids.
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