An article in The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, June 28, 2007, told of Laura Stevens being booted from a Logan bus for reprimanding a woman rider for having six children. Quoting Ms. Stevens from the article:
I felt sorry for her. Maybe she doesn’t know that she could get a patch and not have a kid for five years.
We don’t feel sorry for the woman, as Stevens did. We feel sorry for the world. How many children one decides to have is not a private matter when the consequences of having them is ruining nature. Every birth causes a fractional rise in global temperature, and a fractional decrease in the number of species. The fractions significantly add up.
Put another way, over the centuries the billion or so people of breeding age that died of diseases, wars, and accidents did not die in vain. Had they lived, the progeny they would have spawned would have pushed global temperatures and species losses higher, sooner.
We salute Laura Stevens and the Chinese government for acting openly against overpopulation. And we praise her for sensibly having only one child, a son, and no grandchildren. Had her kind predominated, the world would be better to live in today and tomorrow.
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