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Why can't we be responsible? Why do we have to make it 'scare tactic'? I have three kids. Had them before this was an issue. I would have thoughtfully taken this information into account had I started a family today. What's wrong with that? its being responsible to my global brothers and sisters, not succumbing to Orwellian fears... Just like I decrease my carbon footprint and pick up my litter. Its too selfish to say 'I wanna do it my way', unless you balance it out in other ways. That's personal choice and hopefully responsible personal choice, to your human family.

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I think we need to make serious changes. With respect to people who already have kids. Having too many kids should be frowned upon. We need to make some serious changes to how we approach things. Society changes i mean. We already look down on teenage births, because honestly having kids that young is just plain stupid. We should make similar stances to couples who have more than 2 children. And we should lower tax benefits for couples who have more than 2 children. But keep them for couple who have 1 or 2.

Now.. You could just say its not going to happen. But as cruel as this is going to sound. It will lol.
One way or another things have to give.
This economic trouble we're having is a way of balancing things out. Seems like its still going bad. People are cutting back, people seem to be rethinking they're family plans. And most importantly people are becoming more modest about their consumption. But i tell you right now. If the world economy crashes. Millions will stave, and possibly die. A cruel way of balancing things out no?

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Watch out America! The way our government is heading, it will happen here also. In fact, it already has, years ago. Research the meetings of Planned Parenthood.

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How is telling the truth such a bad thing? It's annoying to me when people say "Oh, stop being such a Negative Nancy" re: population growth. Let's face it, people: People in the developed world DO use WAY more than people in the developing world. Population growth IS a problem. I applaud politicians who bring up these problems and make us at least realize what our irresponsibility has done to the planet.

I'm not out to criticize those who have more than 2 children (replacement level fertility) right now, but I think future generations need to make a conscious effort to plan better and perhaps not be so selfish.

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Please consider this.

The idea of dividing the amount of pollution from a nation by the number of people living there could actually be misleading.

People generally don't burn fossil fuels (which is how we get global warming) themselves. They (or businesses) uses various devices that at some point result in the burning of fossil fuels.

The use of these various devices as "consumption" or for profitable goals registers in some way, shape, or form as economic activity.

So we should be looking at pollution per unit of economic activity. Not per person.

The man from the Optimum Population Trust (perhaps due to an ideology that centers on lowering population growth) gives what is, at best, second hand attention to economic practices which are actually the main source of many environmental problems.

And he said nothing (at least judging from the clip of his comment seen here) in regard to how to deal with them.

Is this ideology distracting from and subverting rather than supporting environmentalism?

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