It is selfish and irresponsible to have more than two children, and one or none is best. The world is running out of resources: the seas are depleted of fish, water wars loom in the future, top soil is disappearing, forests are being hacked down everywhere. Not too long ago, it was said there was plenty of food to feed the world, the problem was distribution. This is no longer true. Now we cannot feed the world.
I cringe when I see a pregnant woman, carrying a baby, pushing a toddler. Does she not know how she is endangering the future of her eldest child by adding more? It has to be ignorance.
I urge everyone to Google Lester Brown, founder of Worldwatch Institute, and read any of his essays for enlightenment. And then quit having kids.
Jayne Thomas
Richmond
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