I never wanted kids

[Envirogal]

115. Population is what leads to all you mentioned.

As someone who works in the Waste industry, I can assure you human population is the biggest issue because every human, no matter how conscious or respecting of resources, causes ecological impact. Every baby born that does not use washable diapers causes waste. And that baby grows into a child, then an adult that consumes and wastes along the way.

When you have a lower population, these impacts are not as detrimental because ecological systems can be balanced with the ability to regenerate.

The problem is our entire global economy is based on this model that relies to heavily on wasting and polluting natural resources. Even developing nations, have their own forms of pollution and waste (and some of this is from the West shoving our problems on them). So while the West is definitely the biggest culprit as far as resource usage, other countries have impacts, too.

If we don’t start recognizing this inconvenient truth, we are heading for systems collapse in so many areas. Nature is incredibly patient, but eventually, she will “correct”. The biggest step humanity can make is by educating women and giving them rights in every country globally. This has proven to lower birth rates and provide cultural norm shifts on women’s role in society and family planning. We will need to start acting now to prepare for the 40 years of economic imbalance, supporting the growing number of aging seniors ratio with less young workers. Economically, it will be painful but the alternative with the panic of the far right to return to women as brood mares, will have an entirely more painful correction as it ignores natures’s resource limits.

Less people= more abundance for everyone and each individual has a value rather than be expendable. And natural systems also have an actual opportunity to rebound.