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> I find it strange you can’t show me actual support for that then, after my repeated requests — are you sure it’s not a widely held dogmatic belief?

Modern extinction rates average around 100 E/MSY. This means birds, mammals and amphibians have been going extinct 100 to 1000 times faster than we would expect. - https://ourworldindata.org/extinctions#are-we-heading-for-a-...

Just under 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact [..] The study paints a gloomier picture than previous analyses of wilderness areas, focused on human impact on habitat, which estimated that 20 to 40% of the earth's terrestrial surface has been little affected by humans. - https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/world/intact-ecosystems-repor...

I.e. the overly optimistic studies showed that ~70% of Earth's land has been significantly affected by humans.

> Surveys of young people point to financial distress as why they don’t have children.

Clearly young people in Somalia are financially better off then, and we should emulate their policies.



> the overly optimistic studies showed that ~70% of Earth's land has been significantly affected by humans

Okay — why is that a catastrophe to which the solution is reducing human population?

> Clearly young people in Somalia are financially better off then, and we should emulate their policies.

Sarcasm doesn’t detract from my point that policy and cultural choices in developed nations dominate why people aren’t having kids.

I think you lack a reply now that data agreed with me.




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