Best Way to Save the Environment: Have Fewer Kids

Not sure why it takes the LSE to tell people this...it's about as obvious a point as there could be. It's an unpopular point, but there really can't be much doubt about its veracity.

(Incidentally, my own decision not to have kids was based in part--though not entirely, of course--on environmental considerations.)

Needless to say, nobody should be forced not to have children, and it would cause problems to drop the population too quickly...but I'm inclined to think that we should provide incentives for people to start slowly ramping down the population. Perhaps we should eliminate tax breaks for children, or at least give smaller deductions for the second child, no deductions for the third, and perhaps even penalties at some point. (I'm rather inclined to think, and always have been, that it's immoral to have like five, six or more kids, and these people who have giant herds of kids absolutely make me insane.)

(h/t Statisticasaurus rex)