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The Importance of a Young Brain
i'm very opposed to this uh anti-natalism all people like david benata we probably don't have time to get into that but there's a sort of philosophical argument um and a religious argument coming back though specifically to the environmental argument i tend to be a subscriber to the school of julian simon rather than paul earlick you may know they had a famous bet on the price of commodities which simon won. If we are heading to zero carbon emissions in 20 or 30 years then a baby born today should not be contributing very highly to emissions, he says. I would say the last thing we should do if we are worried about um the environment is have fewer children