Having Children Bad for Planet ?

Apparently some environmental group says we should be limited to two children apiece.


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Well now I feel just horribly guilty about the near arrival of our third child. /sarcasm

Here’s how I see it.

Gen. 1:27-28

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

God put us on this earth with the command to fill it and subdue it (or if you like the KJV, “have dominion”). This earth will someday pass away, but in the meantime, it is here for our benefit. We are also commanded to be good stewards of what we have been given. So in that light, we shouldn’t deliberately pollute or waste resources. But God would not have given us a home that could not stand-up to use. It will only pass away when the time comes.

Psa. 127:3

Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.

We are currently reading Dinesh D’Souza’s The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsiblity For 9/11. Without going into a debate of the premise, there are some very good insights into how the Western Left sees children and how people from traditional societies see children. To a traditional family from India, Africa or the Middle East, children are a blessing. But even more than that, they are the retirement planning for their parents. When westerners go into these societies and promote the “good” of birth control and abortion, they sound like lunatics.

Have you seen Idiocracy? I’m always a bit reluctant to recommend movies with coarse language, but these days it’s hard to find any that don’t. And, oddly enough, in this particular movie the language does serve a purpose in making a point about society. In this movie an average guy from the present finds himself in the future populated only by the least intelligent, least imaginative (and incidentally, least environmentally aware) because the smartest people didn’t reproduce.

On a related note, apparently humans are a virus.

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