Does having more than two kids do harm to the environment?

Answer 1

Growth in population is going to happen. There is not much we can do to stop it. It is part of being human and continuing your gene line. More babies does equally higher population and all the problmes that come with out. One thing to keep in mind is that the Baby Boomers (people born in the 50's) are getting older and they didnt have as many kids as thier parents did. If the US was a non immigrant country the poplution wouldnt be growing as rapidly and would eventually level out.

So, technically yes in the long run, however if everybody only had 2 children, no. There are many religions that dont allow birth control, abortion, etc. If everybody only had 2 children we wouldnt be growing as rapidly. Ah I got it! STOP HAVING 10 KIDS! SAVE THE POPULATION, SAVE THE WORLD!

hope this helps...

Answer 2

In theory, if every couple only had two kids, the population would remain constant, not growing, or decreasing. There are also people though that don't have children at all, so those that have more then two make up for those who don't have children. A huge increase in population would affect the environment, more people means more pollution, more waste, etc. While I don't think people should have to limit themselves to having only two children, it is up to us as a society to monitor population growth to a manageable number, and it is important that people are aware of this. In China, the society has been unable to support the growing population hence the restriction on the number of children couples are allowed to have. Some may say this is morally wrong, but if everyone participated in the way they were meant to, it would lead to major improvements, including improvements on the environment, but this is a hard law to enforce, and people with money are paying to have more and more children.

Answer 3

Having any kids does harm to the environment. In fact, even being a human in the modern world does harm to the environment! Humans are causing the problem, and having any kids at all will guarantee there will still be humans in the future.

But hey, I'm not against breeding or anything. Just make an effort to pollute as little as possible! Remember, what kids learn from birth, they learn for life! Teach them to conserve power, recycle, and anything else you can think of! If you do it just right, having kids can even benefit the environment!

Answer 4

All living things pollute. But most living things have been incorporated into an ecological system so the pollution is changed into a nutrient for something else etc etc which creates what we call a healthy eco system -UNTIL - one part of the cycle is out of balance with the cycle. It could be lost, or become too big, etc - it interferes with the cycle.
We humans have developed methods of consuming vast amounts of our environment faster than our environment can replenish many of these things. Thereby we can no longer drink water from a stream because it is polluted. The air in any town over 20,000 is rusty orange at times because the air can not be "cleaned" by natural methods fast enough so asthma cases expand exponentially.
The more people we have on the planet, the more pollution we create. If we wash our diapers, and use "green" cars we can help the ecological cycle, but as long as our population keeps increasing, eventually we will "eat" our environment up and like many species on this planet we will dissapear in a relatively short period of geological time.

There are more people on the planet than ever in the history of humanity. In the past there have been plagues that killed millions, 3 of 5 children might have died of disease so there was a need to populate the planet. But we have conquered most diseases, increased our life span and we use more resources per person than ever. Now we have more people than an area can support on its own. I.E. Los Angeles has to import most of its water. Holland has to import most of its minerals, etc etc etc.

If we can balance our consumption with the earth's ecological cycle we may have a long and happy existance. The way to do that, in my opinion, is to regulate our population peacefully and intelligently. Having 2 children would be the way to go because people are killed in wars, diseases, accidents, murders etc so many of those "2" children would never make it which would make for a decline in population. When the population got below an optimum level, then more children could be had.

The main reasons against population control are ignorance and religion. So we must inform the people to offset these negative forces that might have been helpful in the past but are dangerous to our survival now. The key is to think rationally rather than emotionally. Nothing wrong with emotions - they're fun and helpful - in their place and so isn't our rational mind - in its place. When making life decisions, balancing our emotions with our rational mind is a good place for both.
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Answer 5

Some feel that population escalation is the leading cause of environmental issues today. Yes and no. It's not the numbers, it's what the numbers are doing. More people littering, not recycling, cutting down trees for houses, driving cars, etc.

BUT! if you teach your children how to take care of the planet, and they teach their kids, and they teach their kids - there's this snowball effect. In this case, you having more than 2 children actually HELPS the planet. Especially if people follow your children's examples and become religious recyclers themselves. :)

Some countries have limited resources and so having too many children becomes a social and economic problem. That's a bit different.

Thank goodness!

Answer 6

A resounding YES!

I heard many, many years ago that the best thing any of us can do for the environment is to have no children.

That is the choice I made a long time ago and still think it was the right choice.

The world is over-populated with people. Think what it would be like if there were 1 billion instead of the present 6.5 billion. No matter how environmentaly concsious each of us is, we still leave a carbon footprint. 6.5 billion leaving carbon footprints is too many.

Not to mention that the more space people take the less space there is for other species. What right do humans have to take away wildlife habitat? Especially habitat that is ecologically friendly like rain forest (and all other forests for that matter).

Answer 7

No because the number of kids you have has nothing to do with the environment whatsoever. But what your kids do when they grow up however does. How your kids treat and effect the environment is something completely different. But I'm sure you won't have to worry about that.

Answer 8

yes. if a couple has only 2 kids that's known as zero population growth because the next generation contains the same number of members as they first.

each person has an impact on the environment and by increasing the population - a couple having more than 2 kids -that increases the impact on earth.

we are now at 6 billion globally. if we stayed at 6 billion we would have the same impact. when we increase to 9 billion that 3 billion more folks who must consume natural resources to survive ...and a billion of anything is a lot.

Answer 9

If you are referring to population growth yes having more than 2 kids contributes to poplulation growth on a micro scale, but since most women in the world have far more than 2 kids if it concerns you at 2 kids you should not have any kids.

Answer 10

Why would the amount of kids we have hurt the environment as long we teach them how to help protect it for future generations then we are passing it on to our kids and they pass it on to there children and so on.