{"id":154922,"date":"2023-01-08T18:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/overpopulation-myth-having-kids-will-not-destroy-the-planet-perhaps-it-can-even-help"},"modified":"2023-01-08T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:23:03","slug":"overpopulation-myth-having-kids-will-not-destroy-the-planet-perhaps-it-can-even-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/overpopulation-myth-having-kids-will-not-destroy-the-planet-perhaps-it-can-even-help","title":{"rendered":"Overpopulation myth \u2014 Having kids will not destroy the planet. Perhaps it can even help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XRdnvbVgYEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On January 2023, 60 minutes interviewed Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1968 Population Bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Although I agree with some of the points, like the destruction of habitat, and climate change, and those points indeed need addressing. the overpopulation arguments in the book and the interview have already been proven wrong, repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>The 18th century Malthusian catastrophe predictions never materialized. Thanks to modern technology, new clean energy sources, and modern agriculture, our planet doesn\u2019t have an overpopulation problem despite having more people today than at ant time in history.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s okay to have more kids. Kids will not \u201cdestroy the planet\u201d. They may actually help.<\/p>\n<p>This video explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/overpopulation-myth-having-kids-will-not-destroy-the-planet-perhaps-it-can-even-help\">Continue reading \u201cOverpopulation myth \u2014 Having kids will not destroy the planet. Perhaps it can even help\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 2023, 60 minutes interviewed Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1968 Population Bomb. Although I agree with some of the points, like the destruction of habitat, and climate change, and those points indeed need addressing. the overpopulation arguments in the book and the interview have already been proven wrong, repeatedly. The 18th century [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1761,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cryptocurrencies","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}