Slightly amused at how much my view on this has changed since I was 14 XD From 'exterminate them all' to 'don't panic' and all the way down to 'If it happens, adapt. Still don't panic.'
I desire six kids, I do... and if I was fish you couldn't stop me from having most of them. Instead, I get to adopt them all... my plus one's talked me down to 3, but I'll be damned if I don't still yearn for more. Being poor and working 2 jobs and a partial in a city slum? Totally worth it. Being absolutely destitute in Alaska and doing my best to live off the land? I'd enjoy that a good bit. We'd certainly never run out of firewood and various meats.
But I'll adjust to whatever. It's not so much where and how I live, it's that I am surviving and doing my best according to the territory. Children are an amazing potential investment, when you're old and spent, they will sometimes keep you around. With more children: you've got a higher chance that one of them will help provide for you after you've lost the ability to provide adequately for yourself. Entirely off of that, poor people should have as many children as possible... in vein of probable prosperity; after all: you probably don't want your *one* child to be a tremendous failure.
We'll get to space eventually, even if it's off the backs of billions of corpses. Starvation, epidemics, wars... all of that'll happen to keep our population 'manageable' (a 'meager' million humans is still a fantastic population). We will probably not be going extinct anytime soon, and frankly: every child born (especially in developed countries!) stands a chance of being a scientist partially responsible for bringing us to the space scene. In the meantime, why not capitalize upon our current 'good fortune' and further emphasize the technological development of our species? I don't see us losing any ground, new knowledge about our world is constantly coming up, and new technology follows in adapting to said familiarity.
There is no Library of Alexandria to burn, our technology level is following a growth more incredible than our population's by far. We're pretty freaking amazing, and even in the case that most of us die on the way: our progress is far from lost.
I desire six kids, I do... and if I was fish you couldn't stop me from having most of them. Instead, I get to adopt them all... my plus one's talked me down to 3, but I'll be damned if I don't still yearn for more. Being poor and working 2 jobs and a partial in a city slum? Totally worth it. Being absolutely destitute in Alaska and doing my best to live off the land? I'd enjoy that a good bit. We'd certainly never run out of firewood and various meats.
But I'll adjust to whatever. It's not so much where and how I live, it's that I am surviving and doing my best according to the territory. Children are an amazing potential investment, when you're old and spent, they will sometimes keep you around. With more children: you've got a higher chance that one of them will help provide for you after you've lost the ability to provide adequately for yourself. Entirely off of that, poor people should have as many children as possible... in vein of probable prosperity; after all: you probably don't want your *one* child to be a tremendous failure.
We'll get to space eventually, even if it's off the backs of billions of corpses. Starvation, epidemics, wars... all of that'll happen to keep our population 'manageable' (a 'meager' million humans is still a fantastic population). We will probably not be going extinct anytime soon, and frankly: every child born (especially in developed countries!) stands a chance of being a scientist partially responsible for bringing us to the space scene. In the meantime, why not capitalize upon our current 'good fortune' and further emphasize the technological development of our species? I don't see us losing any ground, new knowledge about our world is constantly coming up, and new technology follows in adapting to said familiarity.
There is no Library of Alexandria to burn, our technology level is following a growth more incredible than our population's by far. We're pretty freaking amazing, and even in the case that most of us die on the way: our progress is far from lost.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
