Black-Toof said:
Obviously this is a complicated subject; Areas i haven't spoke about:
- divorce & re-marriage children.
The solution here is less so much "2 per couple" as "1 per individual", of course legally "assigning" a child to either partner's "kiddy credit" is pretty morally repugnant.
But "being nice" got us in this mess, so unless we want to handle some VERY serious consequences someone needs to put their foot down and make some tough decisions that people arn't willing to make for themselves. It's all down to ecology equilibrium in the end.
In ecology you see a species spread to fill resource availability in it's environment; for example a predatory animal population in it's range is tied to it's prey animals, ie. rabbits. if the rabbit population booms, the predator population booms til it hits the ceiling, suddenly resource availability drops, and the predators starve back down to a sustainable level. Eventually a sort've equilibrium is reached whereby resource supply and consumption balance out.
Human, post industrialisation is a global population, if we lack resources in X, we import them from Y. But there is STILL A RESOURCE CAP and in those times of plenty human population has happily raced towards the ceiling, so far, we've managed to keep raising the ceiling as fast as population has grown but we can't keep this up forever. In humans though we don't starve, not initially, we start fighting to secure resources. So unless we want World War 3, we HAVE to tie a knot in it
- otherwise, all those little kids you're raising and loving now, you're dooming them to a brutal future.