Stop Having So Many Kids

@Misanthropic But you cant ignore the human dynamics, that's what china did, its not just math

@MartinTheFirst I just need to correct myself again Japan does not have a limit to children you can have aparrently.. what the fuck I'm sure I saw this on a David Attenborough documentary?!

Either way Japan's population has remained pretty much the same for the last twenty five years.

@Misanthropic and Japan is happy with it. Japan does not want to lose its identity and follow the West. Japan will accept immigrants but not many and those will primarily come from other asian countries.6

@notyouraveragedummy So your friend presumably from your generation had two kids and your kids are in their 50s which means at the very least you are in your late 60s or early 70s. Between your children and your friends there are six children so that averages at 2 people based on yourself and your friend.

I don't understand the relevancy, for instance if you said you know 50 adult people and the average of the amount of kids they have had is 2 or less that might hold a little weight.

@Misanthropic We are 4 siblings in my family and so far only 2 of us have a partner and only one of us have a child 😳

@Misanthropic Well it's too quick to take statistics really, due to our modern medical developments people's life spans are increasing which will contribute a lot to population growth. We might see a large increase due to it that will settle out over time.

Also
And that is from UK's 0.4% on average population growth

@revenant do you think it's people's fault if they have twins? I mean most of the parents think about having one girl and one boy. But recently I have realised that it's becoming to expensive for middle class people to afford having more than one kid. Many people struggle to even get married.

@littlepuppywantanewlife of course not

@revenant good girl 😎

@BizSuitStacy I'm not a vegan this post is my counter argument to veganism

@IM5688 I'm pro choice yes, not really pro abstinence but yes to birth control. I don't really believe it should be legally enforced to limit how many children a person can have but I think that is noble for those who choose to limit how many kids they have.

@maiohy
Yes.

I am not supposed to be here.
I was an "oops". Unexpected. Unwanted. A surprise. To be given away. A gift.

But I still remain.
Misread from day one.
Underestimated from the start.
Never taken into account when calculating the conclusion.

I am more, incredibly more than I was yesterday. Or the day before or the day before...

Tomorrow isn't for me.
I never was MEANT to be.

According to 2 people.
Neither one of them being you.
I look at my life from an "Unexpected" point of view.

Well if you believe your life is mumbo-jumbo like that@PoeticPlay

@maiohy
You just refuse to not be wrong.

My life is UNbelievable.

Just like those two Dr. Suess words that you just flopped down right there.

@carpediem Eat a dick.

@Misanthropic LMAO what a dweeb

@Thodsis Why on Earth would somebody who thinks the planet is overpopulated donate money for people to further overpopulate the planet?

@Misanthropic I've no idea. That doesn't sound great.

However, if 'allowance' is not thought of pocket money from parents and instead is thought of as permission to reproduce then it might make more sense.

@MartinTheFirst You could be right there about the 7 billion species of animals it was a rather uninformed statement about the wide majority of animals to be honest 7 billion species sounds like a lot that makes me think you are counting various bacteria, insects, plants etc. Even then it sounds iffy so I'll have to look that up..

How do we measure that on the World? There are various scientists that study our impact on the environment our impact on the planet and the ecosystem is a big topic right now. This was more of a post in response to vegan preaching as a joke but of course I believe we are having a negative impact on the planet.

@Misanthropic Well I have no idea about how they got that number, i just did a 10 second google haha. It attributed about 2.7 billion species to aquatic life. Us humans have definitely not found that many species, so I would think that they did statistical analysis on how many species there should be, since we know that there's a shit ton we have not discovered yet, for example the Amazon jungle or whatever it's called, if I remember correctly, we have barely even touched when it comes to identifying species.

Yeah but this area of study is still in its infancy stage, people only recently started to care about it for real about 5-10 years ago and maybe most who can make a change don't even care yet. They call it "greenwashing", it's the new popular thing to do in the industry. Not because it's good for the environment, but because they notice that consumers care so they generate more income that way.

@Misanthropic Personally the entire environmentalist thing just makes me feel sick. We clearly do not have enough data. Scientists methods of measuring our effect on the environment is debatable. People are extremely biased and most have an agenda that makes them untrustworthy... For example the stupid ass eco packaging that the industry is pushing on us that is good for nothing, where it turns out that creating paper packaging is worse for the environment than using plastic, and a freaking world power banning PLASTIC STRAWS!!! to feel a bit good about themselves, ultimately having 0 real world effect other than ruining my milkshake.

I prefer just living a normal life and not doing anything that hurts the environment beyond what is necessary and feel good with that.