On 3/29/2014 Free2be said: Ford, you are referring to the "tipping point". Everyone ought to be paying attention to it.
On the topic, the breath of life is the same for all of us. If the world population doesn't slow dramatically, we'll all eventually be more up close and personal with disasters that take multiples of lives.
Thinking about all the children, victims to natural forces or cruel people, is rough. One baby killed is no more or less valuable a life here than "there". Every person is equally as valuable as any child, with a life to be lived, born to breath the oxygen we all share (personalities aside).
People are generally egocentric to a fault but that's for another discussion.
This is something that bothers me a lot. I don't think people should be having really overly large families, such as the Duggars or the sister wives families. I know people will say "if they can afford to take of them, it's ok."
But for me, it's not ok. To me, it's not whether the parents can afford to take care of them in the present state, it's can the Earth afford to take care of them?? What if each of the Duggar children have 20 children and their children have 20 children and so on and so on?
If anyone already has a large family that's fine. Those people are already here and need to be considered and cared for. But how about thinking about it starting today, for the future and the generations hopefully to come???
I'm not talking about abortion here. I don't like that either. I'm saying people need to consider not having so many to begin with. Just because they "can" doesn't mean they "should." I think it's selfish and doesn't consider the Earth and its future.
I know that is a very controversial statement but that is how I feel. The Earth has changed so dramatically in just the last 150 years.
Technology has been a wonderful thing. It is also a curse.
If we continue to go on the way we are now, what kind of world will our children's children have? What about their children? Who will care for them, if we don't start caring for them right now?
As for the lives around the world right now, all those lives are worth the same in my view. I also think we need to care more for our animal friends as well.
The things I hear that are happening in Africa are sickening. I can't bear to think of the poverty, the lack of food, the men with Aids who rape babies, the people who get their arms chopped off or worse for "blood" diamonds and the list goes on....
The state of things in this country leaves a lot to be desired in many areas as well.
Some days it is just very depressing to contemplate the state of the world.
I know there is still a lot of good in the world and very good people and I try to think about that if I can.
Sorry to be such a downer but I can't help but feel that world population is a really serious matter and it is one that affects everyone, or will, at some point. Just because we have food in this country does not mean we will always have it.
Anyway this is all JMO, of course.
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