Test should be required to own dogs and cats and people shouldn’t be able to own more than three pets max. The same way you need to pass a drivers test in order to operate vehicles and more advanced drivers test for more advanced and complicated vehicle, that needs to apply to pet ownership as well.
Most people can’t handle owning pets, they are incapable or don’t have the resources to do so. This isn’t even including the neglectful and abusive pet owners who don’t maintain the hygiene of the pet or property the pet is in.
Its the bare minimum required. Birth rates should be above replacement rate. Currently they are not. I’m in favour of raising birthrates for many reasons but i think the contention is on the sustainability aspect which is why I choose to point out that most countries are currently in a position to sustainably increase their population.
If you want to argue that china/Nigeria/india should not have an increasing birth rate then I’d agree because that is not currently sustainable. Unsustainable population growth forces war or famine. At the moment china can trade for food but the moment something changes and they can’t they are forced to make a choice. The generally increasing birth rates are from countries that can’t sustain themselves. I dont think they should have as high of a birth rate as they currently do.
I’m in favour overall world birthrates increasing but it should be growing throughout the world sustainably instead of booming in the poorest most resource starved places.
I dont care for the panic of different ethnicities within a country. I think once the overall conditions improve to where the birthrates raise all the ethnicities I’m that country will roughly balance out to similar birthrates and they will mix anyway.
I dont think any of that id crazy or shocking rationale.
You’re posting growth as if it were an inherent good, instead of a surefire recipe for future catastrophe.
My assertion against the correctness of “growth is good” is the finite size of earth. I’d like to hear your assertion for that theorum’s correctness.
Growth is good, more people is more opportunity. There is an equation where growth is good and it gets to a point where the negative effects of growth start to outweigh the positives. Most countries are nowhere near reaching that point and the negatives are mostly just cost to build more infrastructure which is quickly resolved by having a larger tax base.
I’ll use New Zealand as an example. At 5million I think its good we grow. At 150million its probably time to talk about incentivising less growth. At 1 billion we need to be making policy to reduce growth urgently.