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Scrivener7

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4. This is absurd. There is 3x the population today as there was in 1960.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2025, 12:36 PM

May 6

Lower population is lower pollution, lower resource exploitation, fewer people competing for those resources, better outcomes for humans in the long run.

I've made my own provisions for my old age. I am not about to tell another woman to have a baby so there will be people to take care of me when I get old.

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How population decline will rob us of youth + Democrats Should Be Encouraging Women to Have All the Babies They Want [View all] Celerity May 6 OP

It's none of my business. gab13by13 May 6 #1

MAGAts will be parents? bucolic_frolic May 6 #2

Support pro-family policy Diamond_Dog May 6 #3

This is absurd. There is 3x the population today as there was in 1960. Scrivener7 May 6 #4

Simple way to fix low birth rates... Hope22 May 6 #5

Interesting tonkatoy8888 May 6 #6

Maybe our government can make some family-friendly policies Ritabert May 6 #7