Is it our moral duty to voluntarily not breed?
I have been thinking about this a lot lately.
Pretty much every single problem facing the human race in particular, and the whole planet in general, would be half as bad if the human population was half of what it is.
Real estate would be cheaper, lol... Fuel would be cheaper... Environmental destruction, global warming, etc.... all would be better.
Humans are breeding like lemmings, and it is unsustainable.
If we keep increasing the population at an exponential rate, there is going to be more suffering.
There is going to be more starvation, more poverty, more deaths due to natural disasters, more war, more injustice... more environmental destruction.
Eventually we breed ourselves to death.
Wouldn't it be our moral responsibility to not breed? To not bring children into this world?
I know that the state of this world brings me a lot of anxiety... and I would not want to do that to my child, to bring my child into this world that is destined for destruction.
Even if you really really wanted to experience what it is like to be a mother or a father, can you limit yourself to have just one child? Even if every women had only one child the population would decrease. But no! Families cannot stop at just one child, then they think that their child will not be perfectly well adjusted angels, so they need to have a brother or sister, etc...
Wake up people! Either we will have to voluntarily reduce our population, or our population will be reduced for us....