>There's a difference between firing someone in a company and simply removing the position through attrition when someone leaves. This is no different than the later.
The difference is that in your company, you know you dont need the position. How do you know that a couple wants to have a kid or not?
I don't! That's why I'm not forcing them to choose! Want to have kids? Awesome. Don't want to have kids? Here's a check. Thanks for not having a kid (or kids).
I didn't boil down a human being to just carbon emissions. I included the millions of gallons of water they'd use over their life, and the trash they create. I didn't not include a comprehensive list of what an average human consumes in their life, but I have now included it below. Spend the ~5 minutes reading it to see the impact. There is no "human footprint" metric that quantifies all of the energy and entropy a human contributes to Earth's biome during their existence, so its not an easy/quick idea to get across.
http://www.greencontributor.com/index.php/human-foot-print.h...