as a follow up to my entry on the duggers: environmental sustainability and breeding from sfgate.com

now i don't necessarily agree with the human extinction movement les knight proposes, but this article brings up some good points about how much waste we produce per individual, especially in an industrialized country like america, and how there are so many children that could be adopted.

whether or not people want to acknowledge it, there are major consequences to our actions. granted i don't do as much as i should to cut down on waste or use my spending power to promote more environmentally friendly production of goods. i still understand that technology or unseen forces won't clean up our messes when they start piling up. as a species we do a lot of damage to this nice little planet we have, and we are using limited resources disproportionately amongst societies. this is bound to get much worse at an exponential rate if people (especially people who have access to an education and know better) don't start making some effort to change this trajectory. it is physically possible and even practical to only have two children. but the only way this can be dictated ethically is if this concept comes from personal judgement.

but for some reason i don't think people like the duggers will agree with that.