considering the level of global warming, is it right for the human race to continue having children?

Answer 1

You - Probably not. If you really believe in global warming, you should set an example for the rest of us.

Answer 2

i don't think that global warming is a huge enough problem yet where we should all stop having kids so they don't live horrible lives.. if that's what you're getting at. but i do think that the population is a problem, because i'm no expert, but i bet the average couple out of the entire world is having more than two children. so, china's whole idea about only being allowed to have a certain amount of children could be a good thing, but then what happens if there are twins? plus, starting laws like that could be a step on the path towards dictatorship.

so in my opinion, we're pretty much doomed in the long run. unless we go find new livable planets, and split up the population.. but that's pretty far fetched. and now i'm sounding like a sci-fi freak and i'm just gonna shut up now. mmkay?

Answer 3

Of course the human population should be in balance with the environment, our resources are not infinite.
The population has been doubling about every 50 years

1900 - 1.5 Bn
1960 - 3.0Bn
2000 - 6.0Bn
2050 - 12.0Bn ????
2100 - 24.0Bn ????

How can we possibly sustain this exponential increase while, at the same time, reducing our effect on the environment and leaving space of the approx 2 million other species with which we share this planet.
We real questions are
What is an ecologically sustainable human population with people living at a reasonable level?
How to bring this about in a humane and sensitive way that satisfies all national, racial and ethnic groups? Just killing capitalists won't do it, as the experience of Russia and China has proved.

In the study of population dynamics there are three recognised factors that control populations.

Starvation
Disease
Predation

The human equivalent of predation is war and crime.

If we don't find a political/social ways of controlling the exponential growth of our population, then nature will do it for us, and it won't be pretty

Edited to add comment.

Benthic man makes an unsubstantiated claim that the planet can comfortably hold another 10 billion people. At the present rate of growth, that will happen in about 30 years. What then? Will the population magically stop growing?

Answer 4

Ignore the morons who try to deny global warming, they must live in the centres of large cities or go around with their eyes shut. It is a fact, it is being caused by human activity.
It is caused by our ever increasing dependence on energy that releases carbon into our atmosphere.
However, there is no doubt that if we continue to pursue continuous economic growth we will destroy the world sooner or later. Likewise, if the number of human beings continues to rise unchecked, sooner or later we will run out of food, space air, waste processing facilities etc.
We can`t live together without fighting now. What would it be like with half of the resouces and twice the poulation.
Make your own mind up. I`m happy procreating whatever.

Answer 5

yes, if you're saying that because you're thinking of the bad effects global warming might bring them then it's even worse if you take away the life they can have, right? and the children of today is the hope of tomorrow. maybe not all of them will help on this problem but a little help goes a long way.

Answer 6

With regard to Smooth's post the warp drive is fictional nonsense. No magician is going to come from space and save the race.
If there is a solution, we have to find it ourselves, here on Earth or nature might find it for us.
We are going to need some form of population control. At least people should be educated in contraception methods to prevent unwanted children. The idea that third World countries need large populations to enable them to feed them selves is a dangerous myth

Answer 7

Genetically speaking, it is a *very* bad idea to put artificial controls on human reproduction. Second, any issues western people have with population are quality of life issues, not quantity of life. Because humans are social beings, we have evolved to clump together at increasing densities until natural processes such as disease and war thin the ranks.
One secondary effect of this style of living is a false presumption that the high population coexisting in one's social network is uniform throughout the world.

Rest easy my friend. The earth will comfortably hold another 10 billion before we'll have to make all the pet psychiatrists and Starbucks' counter help out there get real jobs.

Answer 8

I find that's an incredibly good idea but I think at the moment nobody's going to not have a child because of global warming.... they won't even give up they're SUVs!

P.S. just to inform everyone I don't think thats what he means... if we have less children, we take up less space, use up less food, drive less cars. If everyone had one kid, the population would divide in two (logically thinking) and we could keep up our luxurious lives without hurting the environment.

Answer 9

lol. It makes me wonder too- if everybody is so worried about global warming (doom and gloom etc) why would u want yr children to join the mayhem? does that mean nobody really cares a hoot about their children or the world they r bringing them into.

Answer 10

Hopefully the children now as well as the ones yet to come, will be wiser than we were. They are getting more and more exposure learning how to save plants, trees, and to recycle what is reusable. These children of tomorrow will hopefully be able to stop all the cutting of forest and will save many species of plants and wildlife before they become extinct. They might be much more intelligent than we are today and find ways to end pollution. Also ways to stop and reverse the greenhouse effect.

Answer 11

An excellent question. Anyone with any real interest in this most important question should look at OPTIMUM POPULATION TRUST in the link below.

The world's population in 1800 was just below 1 billion, now it is 6.7 BILLION AND COUNTING. The disaster is coming and anyone not realising this is in clinical denial of the facts.