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Young Europeans more likely to quit driving and have fewer children to save planet
(www.theguardian.com)
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Not necessarily. We can still encourage people to have kids but keep it close to replacement rate (2.3 kids per woman)
But isn’t it the fact that we have so many people coming into the middle class with middle class resource usage that causes planetary resource overruse? Either we need less people in the middle class, or 7 billion ppl have got to go back to pre industrial levels of consumption
No, we need less people living with the north american standard of consumption. This is not the same as "middle class".