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alright let’s try a different tack then. Venezuela was a petrostate financed by burning fossil fuels. If as you say the removal from Venezuelan oil from the market resulted in declining birth rates in Venezuela we have the crux of your disagreement.

If you think pumping excess carbon out of the ground is necessary for humanity to prosper and multiply then this is your view.

If women working say installing solar panels or wind mills alongside men to try to come to a sustainable balance then that is another aspect to your opinion.

Mothers have an innate insight into the resources required for raising children that far surpasses that of men. This point your trad view should acknowledge.

Feminism and climate change research are two fields that give voice to that insight and find ways to extrapolate resources available to the global atmosphere. Having that knowledge may decrease birth rates in the near term yet perhaps there is a means to manage a transition to a more sustainable future?

Pump more oil, make more babies does not seem to have much innovative thought towards the future.

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But my argument is not necessarily that the decline of venezuelan’s oil industry resulted in declining birth rates.

I just pointed to an example of a country that experienced declines in birth rates at the same time inflation was taking place. If deflation “incentivizes” decreases in birth rate then inflation should incentivize the opposite. But that is not the case

yeah. kinda weird measuring the carbon when it’s the oxygen that matters 🤷‍♂️