This is one solution to the fuel/carbon/resource crisis that few people are talking about - taxing production, human production. It's pretty clear a sure fire way to half consumption is to halve the number of consumers, it will just take 100 years to have full effect.
I guess China tried a variant on this a while back with their one child policy and it wasn't very popular or successful. The Australian proposal has the interesting twist that it makes procreation a luxury the rich can afford easily which surely has some unpleasant eugenic implications.
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