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crazyflamingos · #4 (**permalink**) 11-25-2007, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Just Me

Oh this one just takes the cake on the wacko environmentalist.

BUT it got me thinking. Is it selfish to have children?
Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly | the Daily Mail

I have to cut off part of the story as it the site would only allow so many characters. Hey cnredd can you up that BTW?

I don't see anything all that wacky about these people. There are some of us who recycle aluminum cans and some of us who do things more extreme to help preserve the environment.

There is no doubt that each human born puts more strain on the world's resources. Why does it seem "wacky" for some people to decide not to bring additional humans into existence?

I've always figured that I was doing the environment a favor by not reproducing. In my case it was not so much a decision because of the environment as it was because I am gay and would have had to go to extreme measures to reproduce. But nonetheless, I consider it a plus rather than a minus in what I have contributed to the world.

As a matter of fact, my family, as a whole, had a negative affect on the world population. My parents had 5 children. I have no children. 3 siblings have 2 each. And one other sibling has none. (so far and she is 46)

When you add in our spousal equivalents, that is 10 people from my generation and only 7 (counting 1 stepchild) from the next generation, for a net loss of 3 humans taking up world resources.

Personally, I think we deserve a round of applause from every environmentally conscious person in the world.