Gavin de Becker

Also the miscarriages.

Miscarriages and stillbirths.

My point is that it's no...

surprise that these persistent thoughts that I think good people believe, meaning I think there are good people who believe that population reduction is important.

The fact is, of course, that now we are barely at replacement, you know, at replacement value right now in terms of many populations.

Countries like Japan, South Korea, they're under replacement numbers, meaning they're not having enough babies.

The entire population of the planet Earth could fit in the state of New York.

I'm not saying it would be a pleasant place, but I'm just pointing out that the Earth is very big.

And I'm not persuaded that overpopulation is the issue.

I do think an issue is distribution of food.

That's a big one, meaning how we distribute the resources we have is affecting a lot of people.

But whether I agree or I don't agree is irrelevant.

A lot of people believe in this very strongly.

The woman who founded Planned Parenthood, which I gave and still give money to.

The woman who, you know, she was into population reduction.

By the way, when I said a minute ago, still give money to it, the last one was two years.

Now, probably all these things are changing in my head, meaning everything I thought changed.

is subject to reevaluation.

And maybe that's how we ought to live, which is to not lock into these positions where we think we know.

Well, we have used them, of course.