IMHO, it is not a single bullet solution. Why can we not have several strands, ie Population Control, reduced consumption, etc. I only mentioned Population Control because it appears to be ignored now.
Of course we can, it
has to be multistranded.
Consumption, energy usage, travel, food, education, shelter, farming, biodiversity, ecology..
All of it.
There's no one thing on its own that wil do it..
Population is not mentioned so often , in part because it is already happening, birthrate is declining.
Especially in those countries with higher per capita carbon outputs, and consumption of resources.
But there is also a slight cultural pushback.
Partly on religious grounds.
But also in countries where marriage, and childbearing are still enmeshed with a woman's status, security, and care in older age.
Even if I'd been born fifty years earlier, in this country, its highly unlikely that I'd have had the same level of education, employment opportunities, or expectations, economic autonomy, lack of pressure to be married, general life chances, or even control over my own fertility.
i chose to stop at two kids, because that was 'enough' and I had other equally fulfilling things to do with my time.
i didn't feel pressured in any way to have more.
Of course many women happily choose to have more, no problem, because there are some who choose not to have children at all.
There are plenty of ways to have a good life, kids or not..
But not all women get the same chances to be free, self supporting, and autonomous in all the ways that i do.
But the 'only' reasons they don't are social economic and cultural.
its not inevitable, that women should be treated as second class citizens , whose primary function is to serve the domestic needs of others, and to bear children.
Sadly that is
still seen as the case, in many parts of the world.
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