[artonge]

I don't know why you are downvoted, those are exactly the main steps to reduce one's emissions.

I have heard somewhere that emissions can be divided roughly in 4 categories:

- Transport. To reduce this category, you need to travel less and if you need to travel, go by foot, bike or public transports.

- Food. To reduce this category you need to reduce you meat consumption, 2 or 3 times a week is enough, buy less transformed goods, ie cook more, and buy local grown food.

- Consumption. To reduce this category, follow the 5 R: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle.

- Public emissions. This one is tied to all the public services we get. It can only be reduced by reaching agreements as a society.

As for the children, obviously if we all stop having children, this is all of no use. In developed countries we already have stabilized our demographic growth, so I don't think there is a need for limiting oneself.

[barry-cotter]

> I don't know why you are downvoted, those are exactly the main steps to reduce one's emissions.

Any ideology that demands you not have children is for those who will leave neither physical progeny nor intellectual ones.

[archarios]

Implying people can't intellectually affect people other than their own children.

[artonge]

Fair point.

[rayiner]

Thank God for that.

[fulafel]

> In developed countries we already have stabilized our demographic growth, so I don't think there is a need for limiting oneself.

This presupposes that the current population density in developed countries is sustainable, with the foreseeable level of consumption per capita. Is it?

[artonge]

Sustainability is a factor of the population times its emission. So the answer would depend on how much we can decrease our emissions.

If I had to guess, I don't think we will be able to reduce our emissions enough to sustain the population density of developed countries. But I am pretty sure that it could be doable if we took all the measures we could take.

[devdas]

Children in developed countries involve significant changes in lifestyles, adding to the consumption of resources.