• China is one of the world’s most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says.
  • The cost of raising a child compared to GDP per capita is 6.3 times in China, but 4.11 in the US, it said.
  • The cost of raising a child is sinking China’s already falling birth rate, the researchers said.
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    8 months ago

    Because of the time frames. Birth rates take a long time to be reflected in population numbers, on the order of decades to centuries. Climate change however, is something we’re facing right now, and we better find a solution to it in the next couple decades or we’re fucked. It’s not that population numbers don’t affect consumption, it’s that it doesn’t affect our current climate crisis.

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        8 months ago

        The assertion is not that population change does not affect consumption, but that the decline in population is not significant enough to make a difference in the near future, at least compared with other factors