> And that taboo is probably rooted in evolutionary psychology
No. It's because it inevitably puts you in the position of deciding who gets to have children while the rest are denied such privileges for the good of the species.
>>matheu+(OP)
When I think of reducing the population I think simply of making birth control universally free and public information campaigns about the environmental cost of more humans. Nothing more than that, and that'd honestly be a huge step in a country where large swaths support abstinence-only sex education.