. @NellFrizzell should read our #SimonAbundanceIndex. Children do not strain the world& #39;s resources.

In fact, the opposite is true: each new child is correlated with an increase in resource abundance.

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Another dubious claim in the article: "Pollution now kills more people than tobacco – and three times as many as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined."

Air pollution deaths are actually going down. AIDS, Malaria, and TB deaths are just decreasing faster.
Air pollution deaths: https://www.humanprogress.org/dataset/deaths-from-air-pollution/?regions=517
HIV/AIDS">https://www.humanprogress.org/dataset/d... deaths:
https://www.humanprogress.org/dataset/hiv-aids-deaths/?regions=517&view=selected
TB">https://www.humanprogress.org/dataset/h... deaths:
https://www.humanprogress.org/dataset/tuberculosis-deaths/?regions=517&view=selected
Malaria">https://www.humanprogress.org/dataset/t... deaths:
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Rich countries might consume more per capita, but economic development is good for the environment.
Developing economically has an initial environmental cost, but once a society is developed, it starts to care about the environment, and the damage is reversed.

It& #39;s called the environmental Kuznets curve, and it applies to CO2 emissions as well as deforestation and poaching.
In other words, no, having a baby in 2021 is not environmental vandalism.
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