Based on a talk delivered at the conference on Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them? May 30-31, 2024 – Budva, Montenegro – sponsored by the Center for the Study of Bioethics, The Hastings Center, and The Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics.
Father of five, as you know, I strongly approve of this analysis and its main proposition. This is in line with the concerns that I have expressed in recent years through my articles ("What if childhood became rare?" <https://transhumanistes.com/et-si-lenfance-devenait-rare/> / What if childhood became rare in Africa too?).
I said there that it will be essential to preserve childhood, by all means. But the safest way is still... to have children.
Thanks Marc - The history of thinking about population is full of racism, eugenics and patriarchy, so I get why the Left is very leery of endorsing population goals. But we all agree that these policies would be good things. We should acknowledge that liberal/social public policy should allow everyone who is at all motivated to be a parent to easily become one.
Hi James,
Father of five, as you know, I strongly approve of this analysis and its main proposition. This is in line with the concerns that I have expressed in recent years through my articles ("What if childhood became rare?" <https://transhumanistes.com/et-si-lenfance-devenait-rare/> / What if childhood became rare in Africa too?).
I said there that it will be essential to preserve childhood, by all means. But the safest way is still... to have children.
Thanks Marc - The history of thinking about population is full of racism, eugenics and patriarchy, so I get why the Left is very leery of endorsing population goals. But we all agree that these policies would be good things. We should acknowledge that liberal/social public policy should allow everyone who is at all motivated to be a parent to easily become one.