Save The Planet - Stop Breeding

[sunny-dave]

Not just Climate Change - water and food are going to become increasingly scarce resources unless population growth stalls.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

This also illustrates the perverse nature of paying people to have children, through child benefit, instead of making people pay the full economic costs of their child including education and health care.

Surely a government that was serious about cutting carbon emissions and preserving resources for the future would *increase* income tax according to the number of children in a household, rather than offering subsidies and handouts?

[ludwig]

// Save the planet //

Don't worry, the planet will be just fine. It'll flourish and prosper once Humans have made themselves extinct.

[fiction-factory]

> those people that choose to breed to excess (and let's fact it, we know the type of people I am referring to)

Let's face it, I don't know what type of people you mean- apart from those that choose to breed to excess.

I think the problem of population growth is more of a problem in third world countries- in the UK we need children to be born otherwise the population will eventually consiste of just pensioners and will then die out, but I agree that the child benefit, general out of work benefits and children's tax credits systems need reviewing as they encourage the production of children in situations where the resultant children are not given anything like a fair start in life.