Yeah, and the BBC version omits the fact that she already had five or six brats at home. I think in this case, the Chinese have it right. Mandatory sterilization is going to be the only cure.
I just don't get it. There are obviously too many humans in the world already. Why do people think we need more?
I don't think people do it deliberatly. The biological urge to reproduce is very strong in a lot of people. The impact on the eco-system of their bringing more mouths to feed into the world is the last thing on their minds. For others it's a financial thing. In the UK having children pays HUGE dividends. My sister is a very tallented lady, who works as a nuclear scientist at a well known nuclear installation. She is not poor. Yet she gets the same child benefits as someone who has a kid and is on the breadline. This goes back to my rant a few days ago about benefits being issued on the basis of demographics rather than need. It is in my view the single biggest failure of the post war welfare state. I can assure you it was NEVER intended to be used thusly.
Somehow I totally missed that urge, along with the instinct that makes people coo at human babies. Eeew.
You might wonder had you seen me cheering the discovery of infant platyfish in one of my tanks this morning, but somehow that exception only applies to H. sapiens. Every other species' successful reproduction does interest me. ;p
I know the human population could use some thinning. Hence no intention to breed. :)
It just baffles me to see how human population is over 6.1 billion (Last time I heard) and probably is still skyrocketing, and they want to control the animal populations by killing them off "Because there are too many of them and their population density is threatening the indigenous species". While breeding uncontrollably like rabbits in the spring.
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I'll go as far as the "Wilderness has a right to exist for its own sake" level there. As for being first, I have no offspring and never will have any. I'd say that's doing my part. I don't ask anyone to commit suicide in order to reduce the population, just that they stop reproducing uncontrollably.
LOL. That would help, but don't hold your breath waiting for it unless you want to be a blue zebra.
The US lost a good Surgeon-General (Joycelyn Elders) over that attitude. She was frank, outspoken and sensible, and when she agreed that masturbation was normal and we ought to admit it and perhaps even encourage it in preference to some other forms of activity, she was forced to resign. By President Bill Clinton, of all people. Talk about hypocrites!
I suppose that if humanity was, well, managed, better, than we'd not have the ecosphere so damaged. Perhaps with better guidence humans could learn to limit their growth, to care for the planet better and learn to live with a it as a mother.
Perhaps.
We'd need someone, or maybe a group, that would be the forerunners of controlling the population, using it, for far better ends then the chaotic breeding thats allowed now.
A special group that could...guide humanity, that could, make the world the Eden it could be.
There would, of course have to be sacrifices, but would it be so much to ask?
What we need is more thought and less hormones. It's that simple. Enforcement isn't going to cut it. Social pressure and better appreciation of the balance of nature, though, should go a long way in the right direction.
Animals are driven to reproduce, we've just got language and opposable thumbs and machines, so no other species can come even close to us.
It'll catch up to us about 2050, then the population will decline drastically, according to certain UN studies.
THEN we'll be talking about why we don't mate more, or...we'll start cloning and create offshoots like furs and...but I roleplayed that already with someone ad naseum. XD
We already know how to separate sex from reproduction, so this ought to be a no-brainer I think. Somehow, though, the message just isn't getting through yet.
I suppose, given time, humans will learn to be sensible about population, just as they (mostly) have learned to live with each other without pulling out a club and clouting their buddy each time he disagrees with them. The question is, will we adapt quickly enough or will we destroy the planet as if we were a horde of locusts before it sinks in?
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Goes well with this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7852623.stm
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I just don't get it. There are obviously too many humans in the world already. Why do people think we need more?
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You might wonder had you seen me cheering the discovery of infant platyfish in one of my tanks this morning, but somehow that exception only applies to H. sapiens. Every other species' successful reproduction does interest me. ;p
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It just baffles me to see how human population is over 6.1 billion (Last time I heard) and probably is still skyrocketing, and they want to control the animal populations by killing them off "Because there are too many of them and their population density is threatening the indigenous species". While breeding uncontrollably like rabbits in the spring.
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People, use a friggin' condom! >:(
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SLOW DOWN! <¥>
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You first.
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But seriously, I think people should masturbate more.
Pope should tell people it is actually OKAY to masturbate.
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The US lost a good Surgeon-General (Joycelyn Elders) over that attitude. She was frank, outspoken and sensible, and when she agreed that masturbation was normal and we ought to admit it and perhaps even encourage it in preference to some other forms of activity, she was forced to resign. By President Bill Clinton, of all people. Talk about hypocrites!
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than we'd not have the ecosphere so damaged. Perhaps
with better guidence humans could learn to limit their
growth, to care for the planet better and learn to live
with a it as a mother.
Perhaps.
We'd need someone, or maybe a group, that would be the
forerunners of controlling the population, using it, for
far better ends then the chaotic breeding thats allowed
now.
A special group that could...guide humanity, that could,
make the world the Eden it could be.
There would, of course have to be sacrifices, but would
it be so much to ask?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draka
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got language and opposable thumbs and machines,
so no other species can come even close to us.
It'll catch up to us about 2050, then the population
will decline drastically, according to certain UN
studies.
THEN we'll be talking about why we don't mate more,
or...we'll start cloning and create offshoots like
furs and...but I roleplayed that already with
someone ad naseum. XD
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I suppose, given time, humans will learn to be sensible about population, just as they (mostly) have learned to live with each other without pulling out a club and clouting their buddy each time he disagrees with them. The question is, will we adapt quickly enough or will we destroy the planet as if we were a horde of locusts before it sinks in?
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