I\u2019m sure nothing bad could come of thi<\/a>s. \u00a0Just people saying there are too many people in the world. \u00a0And suggesting we should have fewer kids. \u00a0And perhaps we should encourage\u00a0people to keep with the call for smaller families. \u00a0Encourage, being broadly applied of course. \u00a0After all, it\u2019s simple math. \u00a0To save the planet we might just have to get serious about how many people we let be on the planet.<\/p>\nNope, I can\u2019t imagine anything bad coming from that. \u00a0 \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n
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