I already gave my reason for not sweating the per kid carbon foot print. Peak oil doesn’t bother me either.
This statement by Arraya is interesting.I don’t feel it lays out anything dismal except that it causes fear for its extremism.
“So in terms of carrying capacity of the earth which was passed back in the late 40s to early 70s according to most experts in the field, one could only conclude that breeding is the most environmentally irresponsible, selfish thing a couple can do especially in the 1st world. Unless you think your life is more important than poor 3rd world people. In that case breed away it will just kill off people in countries that we exploit for resources and compete for
food with.”
One could also say that people who are in a place where they can’t feed themselves and are breeding just to die of hunger and famine induced massacres are selfish.What can uneducated people dieing of starvation sucking minerals out of the mud in the local riverbead do for evolution and the advancement of technology, which may at this phase of human existence pratically be the same thing?
It seems less selfish to create children in a civilization where they might actually have the opportunity to further technology and therefore possibly affect the opportunity for people to thrive well into the future and answer anything nature presents including the possible need to take our evolution off the planet and into the universe on a ever widening basis or a million other life preserving technologies not yet advanced.
Just thought I would present an alternate extremist view.Now you all go make some babies.
Of course I do not agree with abandoning Africa or any other people of any country of the world and technology is also a curse in many ways. I think there may be some middle ground to find on these two extremist theories.
Back to the frightening part of such views as Arrya expressed…What is frightening is the self righteousness on these types of issues and the political swarming around them. These are the types of wacko theories that drive barbaric policies like democracy in the middle east, murder of babies by gender, slavery, the inquistion, or the holocaust.