Friday, November 16, 2007

There is little that can be done.

I do not think that there is anything we can do now to stop our increasing population and save the world from destruction. We cannot simply tell people they should limit how many children they have; it is their right to have as many as they want. We cannot control people like they do in other countries. In some countries things such as family planning are used to limit population increases by providing education on pregnancies and giving out such things as contraceptives. Family planning is great idea because it does limit those who do not want to have children but do so because they cannot stop their actions. But family planning can only do so much for the world because not even country has access to such things as family planning. If we want to be able to combat this problem or at least slow down the rapidly decreasing time we have on earth we have to learn to conserve everything we are doing. If we can conserve our resources we might be able to leave enough for the next generation to use as converativley as we did. It is true when Dr. Singh said that we as humans are "the smartest species but making the dumbest decisions." Even though this is true like I said earlier there is little that can be done to what damage we have already done to the earth; we will just continue to be growing population wise and use up the limited resources we now have because some of us have this mentality that we are doing nothing wrong so have no desire to change their ways to save this planet that we call home.

Rukayat

2 comments:

Navdeep Singh said...

You are so right when you say that we cannot tell people how many children they can have, it fringes on their reproductive rights. I know we have laws against homicide and genocide. But what label are we going to give to this criminal act, that involves us all, killing every other species and ourself delibrately. Can we call it organocide (killing of everything alive) and prosecute it in the court of law?

John Watson said...

No matter how much you conserve limited resources, they are still limited. It doesn't make a difference how big the population becomes, these resources will still be consumed.

However, recycling resources may be the way to go -- but it often cannot be done.

And about this: "We cannot simply tell people they should limit how many children they have..."

Why not? Even if doing this would preserve human life on earth?

What's better:
1) millions of starving babies
---OR
2) A few thousand happy, affluent people?

love,
John