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Not when my four year old drops the iPad on my tile floor.
by EpicEng 9y ago
Not when my four year old drops the iPad on my tile floor.
- executesorder66 9y agoDon't give your four year old an iPad then.
- paulcole 9y agoHaving a kid is among the worst decisions a person can make for the environment. A childless person could smash iPads all they wanted and not make a dent in comparison.
- njarboe 9y agoUnless one of the kids you raise does something really great to improve the world. Not having kids to help the environment has no chance of working unless there is a world government that enforces the policy on everyone. This idea that not having children is a great good should be put rest. Raising children well is a lot of hard work and anyone who would do it well should be encouraged to have them.
- paulcole 9y ago> Unless one of the kids you raise does something really great to improve the world. This is like saying “if he grows up to be a pro basketball player, he’ll be rich.” Should be pretty obvious that it’s an astronomical longshot at best. Whether a child is raised well or not has nothing to do with their effect on the environment. Simply existing in the modern world clearly has a huge cost.
- njarboe 9y agoOverall net positive environmental impact over the generations I guess would be a better way of stating it. A culture that believes in not breeding (for any reason) will not last very long.
- paulcole 9y ago> Overall net positive environmental impact over the generations I guess would be a better way of stating it. Multiple generations just multiplies the negative impact- it doesn't reverse it. At some point (which we may discover sooner rather than later) humanity's impact will be beyond repair.
- EpicEng 9y agoOdd that I wasn't thinking about the environment when my wife and I discussed having children. Are you serious?
- reformedjuju 9y agoFound the evolutionary dead-end.
- paulcole 9y agoYes. Just less delusional about the impact my choices have than most people. It's fine to choose to have a kid. But don't fool yourself into thinking you're making a responsible choice when it comes to the environmental impact of doing so.
- EpicEng 9y agoA South Park episode comes to mind... http://gph.is/2bjK3lK http://gph.is/2bjK3lK I just don't know where you get off telling people they shouldn't have kids. Maybe you're just immature, I don't know, but there's nothing to be gained from it.
- paulcole 9y agoI specifically said, "It's fine to choose to have a kid." My point is that if a person is concerned about the environment and the toll humanity is taking on it, recognize the affect your personal choice is having.
- EpicEng 9y ago>It's fine to choose to have a kid. Thanks for your blessing. It's everything else you said )moreso the way in which you said it) that's wrong.
- paulcole 9y agoWould you judge someone who said they were environmentally conscious but lived in a McMansion and drove a hummer? I don't see why having kids is any different.
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