2006-07-02 19:41:59 · 9 answers · asked by Ezekiel 29 bumfuzzle~ 3 in Environment
Well, if you and your partner/spouse are very unattractive, it may help esthetically...but I am not sure that in the short run it will really have an effect in terms of resources. Everything fluctuates and maybe the rising sea level will get them or a new disease strain...maybe they will be fine upstanding eco-conscious gals/lads....who can tell.
Have them or don't have them. Flip a coin.
2006-07-07 14:43:33 · answer #1 · answered by slipstreamer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see the theory at work here. What with the earth being overpopulated already, and more people means more pollution. However, this justification does not actually work, because the environment will not be saved by you not having kids. Sparing the earth from having to provide for a few more humans is not enough to save it; so you not having kids simply would not end with you saving the earth. Good effort though.
2006-07-03 02:55:07 · answer #2 · answered by nichole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every person uses resources. From food to water to the bricks to build schools to the cotton for clothing, every human being represents the use of natural resources. It was posited in the "Tragedy of the Commons" that they only way to save the world is for humans to no longer view birthing as a right. The Commons are public goods such as air and water that everyone uses whether or not they contribute to their maintenence.
Every child that is born will use up to 80 or 90 years' worth of resources over their lifetime. That means even one birth could have a significant impact on the overall health of the earth.
2006-07-03 12:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by Ranavain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the smaller the population the longer the planet will last, so if each person only had one child, to replace themselves, it would remain about the same as now, if you have no children or one child per couple the population could reduce and not so much strain put on the planet, there will always be some people having no kids and some having a dozen, and life goes on. until we wear out mother earth that is.
2006-07-03 02:46:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You not having kids will not save the environment.
2006-07-03 02:45:15 · answer #5 · answered by Engineer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not having too many kids will help the environment as then there will be less people destroying the environment.but if you do not have kids at all and people stop having kids and the mankind dies who will be there to bother about the environment
2006-07-03 03:01:16 · answer #6 · answered by raj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you get your information. If you got it from the book Population Bomb, the info is obsolete because the bomb turned out to be a dud.
2006-07-03 02:50:20 · answer #7 · answered by GoingNoWhereFast 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the less kids, the less the population, the less the pollution
2006-07-03 02:45:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
other than improving someone elses chance at a "Darwin award" you mean? ;) H
2006-07-03 02:49:21 · answer #9 · answered by H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋