Abortion and Global warming

[Confused Ape]

This isn't a thread about the morality or immorality of abortion. It is a thread about consistency of positions. If we as individuals have no moral obligation to the unborn then why would we have an obligation to preserve the planet for future generations?

There's the problem of an increasing world population along with climate change.

World Population

The world population has continuously grown since the end of the Great Famine and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.[6] The fastest growth rates – global population increases above 1.8% per year – occurred briefly during the 1950s, and for longer during the 1960s and 1970s. The global growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, and has declined to below 1.1% as of 2012.[7] Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 138 million,[8] and are now expected to remain essentially constant at their 2011 level of 134 million, while deaths number 56 million per year, and are expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.[9]

The UN projects steadily declining population growth in the near future, with the global population expected to become between 8.3 and 10.9 billion by 2050.[10][11] UN Population Division estimates for the year 2150 range between 3.2 and 24.8 billion;[12] one of many independent mathematical models supports the lower estimate.[13] Some analysts have questioned the sustainability of further world population growth, highlighting the growing pressures on the environment, global food supplies, and energy resources.[14][15][16]

What effects are climate change likely to have when resources start getting scarce because of droughts, crop failure and rising sea levels etc. ?

Climate change may lead India to war: UN report

Key messages from IPCC report

* Coming years will see more extreme weather events (floods, cyclones, cloud bursts, unseasonal excessive rains and drought etc) in most parts of the globe

* Maldives, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will be among the most affected countries in Asia

* Severe stress on fresh water resources in South Asia and China (Himalayan river basins) may become a reason for armed conflict in the region by middle of the 21st century

* Climate change may be a determining factor in national security policies

* Coastal flooding will not only kill people and cause destruction, it will also affect tourism in India (like in Goa and Kerala)

* Decline in foodgrain production (wheat in India/Pakistan and wheat and maize in China)

* Big coastal cites like Mumbai and Kolkata will be affected by sea-level rise in 21st century

* Some fish and other marine animals will face extinction by 2050, affecting fishing community

* In many regions, changing precipitation or melting snow and ice are altering hydrological systems, affecting water resources in terms of quantity and quality

* Glaciers (including Himalayan) continue to shrink almost worldwide due to climate change, affecting run-off and water resources downstream

* Climate change will impact human health mainly by exacerbating health problems that already exist.

A lot of those problems will affect everywhere else on the planet and Climate Change Could Increase Armed Conflicts By 50 Percent Worldwide

So lets say - Every potential human has the right to live so he/she can fight for food, water and other resources or die in the attempt. Not all potential humans will live long enough to fight, of course. Millions will die in infancy due to starvation, disease or being in the middle of an armed conflict.