It's funny that you bring this up. I was considering bringing up something similar myself.
Formerly called Zero Population Growth, an organization called
People Connection advocates family planning to reduce overpopulation, helping the wellbeing of the environment, women, and children. I think they used to preach one kid per person, so that our population wouldn't go up -- it would either stay steady or start to decrease.
A little more fun is the
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
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VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It's a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.
We don't carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.
Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of Earth's ecology.
As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens... us.
Each time another one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom.
When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Mother Nature's "experiments" have done throughout the eons. Good health will be restored to the Earth's ecology... to the "life form" known by many as Gaia.
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For some really hilarious answers to "Why have children?" check out the table of reasons and disputes
here. Some examples:
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Reasons given: I can't help it, it's a biological urge.
Real reasons: Unexamined motivations.
Suggested alternatives: Institutions await those who can't control their biological urges.
Reasons given: Pregnancy and childbirth are life experiences.
Real reasons: Life choices limited by social indoctrination.
Suggested alternatives: Rent pregnancy simulator. Choose different life experiences.
Reasons given: God wants us to.
Real reasons: Mindless obedience to dogma peddlers who want larger flocks.
Suggested alternatives: Seek true nature of God, whatever you perceive God to be.
Reasons given: Want a child with our bloodline.
Real reasons: Ego extention. Racial identity.
Suggested alternatives: Recognize value of people with different genetic makeups.
Reasons given: I have superior human genes.
Real reasons: Doesn't recognize an oxymoron. Megalomania.
Suggested alternatives: Do great things with your genes, rather than expecting the next cultured batch to do it.
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