claim: Bill Nye proposed penalizing families with too many children to reduce population growth and slow climate change.
evidence: [ citation needed ] Population policies that are intended to increase a population or subpopulation growth rates may use practices such as : Higher taxation of married couples who have no, or too few, children Politicians imploring the populace to have bigger families Tax breaks and subsidies for families with children Loosening of immigration restrictions, and / or mass recruitment of foreign workers by the government A number of ancient writers have reflected on the issue of population.