Too many arguments are shoe-horning "environmental benefits" to artificially insert ethical justifications. It's getting a little tedious when it's equally applied to marriage, house ownership, office politics and LED lights (NYT even cited environmental benefits to being less tall).<p>Not being alive also has environmental benefits but it's not necessarily worth mentioning.
I expected this to be “The climate benefits of less productivity” but on reading it turned out there wasn’t much impact on productivity. I did find it amusing that a prominently featured objection was “it might give people more time for leisure activities that are bad for the environment”. No work and no play either.