- 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.
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.
But kids consume resources too? It’s reflected immediately, even if it might not be the immediate full effect.
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