Earth day came and went. What are people to celebrated. The dilapidated state of this bubble we live in? It’s not that important. Humans have always depended on this planet to sustain their living without even considering the outcome. So, now it’s culturally intrinsic for humans to exploit the earth and its good. It’s culturally unacceptable for a married couple to get married with having children. Like it’s a prerequisite to a complete life. Just like David Attenborough claimed, the biggest issue we have at hand right now is over population. It seems like every couple with a vagina and penis seem hard pressed to make more babies, like it was there biological right.
Overpopulation is single-handedly overcrowding this earth, exploiting its resources and, as a result, polluting it. And no credible governmental figure is saying anything about it. Maybe if schools had family planning lessons instead of classes about myths and dogmas of the abyss, then people will realize what impact they are putting on this earth every time they think it’s cute to have a child. There is a correlation between the lack of education to rate of childbirth. Uneducated persons tend to have more children. Why is that? You’d think that people, like the Swedes, who have great standards of living that allow them to have an abundance of children would do so. But, it’s quite the opposite. The birthrate is African countries is the highest. In any case, awareness about overpopulation is still at its infantile stages. And it’s not looking any better.
The Swedes are taught sex-ed in school when they’re only 9 years old.
People in low income or touch situations sometimes have many children in the hope that some survive (sort of like how your grandparents may have had many children when health care wasn’t as good even in most “western” nations).
Many people in Africa have a great many problems so for them it makes sense to have more, rather than less, children. Also children can serve as future workers in rural or agricultural settings so it is good economics to have many.
About resources getting used up…. thats us in the western world again with our fewer children but bigger houses, cars, electronics, and so on. You don’t need a number of children to use up a great deal of resources. We’ve been proving it.
And it seems to take a recession to really make some people shrink their carbon footprint-the comment about someone just shrinking his/hers is actually overoptimistic (at least for many “consumers”).
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