I pledge to have no more children other than via adoption. This will save a lifetime of environmental footprint for each child I will not bring into the world.
I pledge to have no more children other than via adoption. This will save a lifetime of environmental footprint for each child I will not bring into the world.
Unfortunately bringing a person from poverty to 'middle class' also increases footprints, for example last year something like 30 million Chinese moved into cities (call it growth) from rural areas, this was back when China was building the equivalent of an Australia per year in infrastructure, or a coal fired power plant every 10 days, I'm not 100% on these figures but I'm sure you can get the picture.This is what people can't work out or accept, the planet is overpopulated now, the only way 'we' as a species are going to be around in 100 years is if we fast become underpopulated, due to resource depletion the population has to/will drop by 3-5 billion as we plunge down Hubbert's curve, this will happen over the next 25 -30 years 99% of our food is dependent on oil and natural gas, take that off the worlds dining tables and watch what happens to adopted children. In the 1960s China had a famine with 30 million people starving to death, they had a saying back then "you eat my child and I will eat yours" ... same thing happened on Easter Island. Maybe adopted children will be useful for barter?
A suggestion, as parents are the ones responsible for overpopulation they should front up and do the 'Soilent Green' thing and volunteer to make room for the innocent victims of their ego driven breading ... namely us non breeders, and their children. Sorry mum and dad, for your child's sake you have got to go ;)
in May 2009
Adoption is a great gift, both to childless couples and children. Some adoptions unite children from impoverished backgrounds with families from wealthier circumstances, but that is not always the case.
Adoption is not only an opportunity to give a home and family to a child who would otherwise be without, it is also an opportunity to instil ones values in that child. A better world will come from better people.
Thanks,
Glenn.
in May 2009
Couldn't agree more. The Earth's carrying capacity was exceeded in the mid-80's and this is due, almost totally, to population growth (77 million additional people each year).
in August 2009
What a crock. Why don't we quote the real numbers - 6 billion would be ok if we all lived like many indigenous tribes have done for thousands of years? IF that is a crazy argument then don't give me the 1st world causing biggest footprint crap. For us to make this pleadge may well remove the very people who will be able to lead the change that is required - educated, inspired, and wise. That is to say, the people involved in websites like this have a pretty holistic approach and we should be the ones breeding like rabbits to bring the next generation up thinking the right way!
in June 2010
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