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.[/quote]

Oh ok so it would be better for the planet if no one had kids? Great so we would have a nice clean planet with no one to live on it. Does that make sense to you?

If a couple have 2 children they are doing nothing but creating people to take their place. I simply do not understand how people can say that a squeaky clean planet is more important then a human life. Make no sense at all and as I said if everyone stops having kids the planet would be empty, that is better?