Is it selfish to have more than two children?

[cailin maith]

Good Andyw option

[Moscow Mule]

To answer the question fully, you have to know the reasons people have for having children.

I think that it's irresponsible having more than 2 children if you are stupid. If you are not, you're probably ok as you are delaying the point where the intelligent have been wiped off the planet.

That said, for the planet at the moment, more people = bad news, so really I shouldn't be considering any children. The fact that I am means I'm selfish.

[BrilloPad]

I have 3 children now : lucky Mrs BP sterilized or I would have to have the snip!

[zara_backdog]

I have 3 children now : lucky Mrs BP sterilized or I would have to have the snip!

I wanted Mr ZB to have the snip after I had my second, as he said not he just doesn't get the chance to father any more

Is it selfish? - Like other posts not if you are intelligent and can support them and provide a safe loving home. It it is a means of income, which I am sure it is for some or because they just keep having kids, then yes.

[moorfield]

I have 3 children now : lucky Mrs BP sterilized or I would have to have the snip!

I also have 3 children now, and as some of you might recall, I did have the snip. (which reminds me, I need to send off my "samples" soon).

[Platypus]

I need to send off my "samples" soon).

Tosser

[HairyArsedBloke]

New monthly mag for today. linky

[Flashman]

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.imagine.html

Visions of Britain

JUST IMAGINE

UK population rising to 100 million by 2100.
(Latest Population Projections show it will reach 77 million by 2050 unless action is taken.)

A city being built every year. • Reduction of living space to the density of Hongkong or Japan. • Recurring conflict over resources. • Abandonment of all protection of the countryside, including Green Belt and National Park land. • More than 15 million new homes and supporting infrastructure needed in the next seven decades. • Whole counties covered by wind farms. • Greater dependence on intensive farming methods and genetically modified crops, made worse by the effects of climate change as temperatures rise. • Further destruction of wildlife and complete collapse of marine fish stocks. • Total transport gridlock - no-one can move •Intense pressure on public services. • Other severe restrictions on freedom. •No place untouched by noise or pollution. • Increasing dependence on other countries for diminishing food and energy resources. • Or frequent power cuts, fuel shortages and water rationing...

OR IMAGINE...

The UK's population stabilising and decreasing about 0.25% a year before 2050 and gradually declining further to an environmentally sustainable level - see Optimum Populations

Wide open landscapes - think of France...

Housing freed up at affordable prices.

Britain's lost countryside gradually being restored.

Restored wildlife and relieved pressure on fish stocks.

Widespread organic farming and local food sourcing.

An end to discrimination in employment for older people, the disabled and ethnic minority Britons.

Uncongested roads and more space for public transport projects.

Nuclear and fossil fuel-driven power stations cut by more than half.

Half the UK's energy needs met from renewable sources

Greenhouse gas emissions reduced to sustainable levels.

Less stress, perhaps. More freedom. More space, silence and starlit skies

Fat chance of the 2nd vision ever coming true.