FairwoodKing;864350 wrote:I'm not going to help ruin the planet by having ten kids. I'm sure the planet likes me more than it likes you.
What if those ten kids all become self-sufficient organic sustainable farmers who feed tens of thousands of starving people, all become passionate members of the Sierra Club and like-minded environmental groups and work wonders at protecting "the planet"? Your view of "more children=bad planet" is very narrow-minded and short-sighted. Now if you want to talk about overpopulation in major metropolitan centers around the world, then that's a different conversation. But the planet is fine.
Now here are some bad dudes who definitely ruined the planet (the first three especially):
George Washington- fifth child out of ten
Thomas Jefferson- one of ten children
James Madison- one of twelve
Ulysses S. Grant- one of six
Dwight Eisenhower- one of seven
JFK- one of nine