Some couples who don't want kids substitute them with pets. As such, they may actually help the planet by aiding in reducing the human birth rate. |
Yes, and thus the human civilization is about to begin its long decline... The technologies that have already been on the drawing board for decades -- that can feed and power tens of billions of homes this one planet alone -- will never be implemented, and new technologies will never be invented. The settlement of space will not take place. With all the thugs of earth unified into One World Government, there'll be no intergovernmental competition to keep their power in check. Humanity will surrender to a state religion of environmentalist socialism, heralding a new dark age, like to the one described in Ayn Rand's
Anthem... Government schools will brainwash everyone, and inquisition heretics for "
crimes against humanity"... Government family planning boards will tell you how many kids you may have, if any... Government health-care commissars will tell you when to live or die...

Without population growth, humanity has no future.