Originally Posted by
zeneyes
Need I assert the big picture yet again? We live on a planet with limited resources. Most of the civilized world has invested it's future in a way of living that has no future. Petroleum will run out one day, and that means restructuring the way we do business on a global scale. Just think about food.
How much petroleum inputs are needed to grow an ear of corn and turn it into cornmeal, or corn chips? Herbacides, pestacides, fungacides, making terminator seeds in Monsanto's lab, trucking the seeds, running the heavy farm equipment to plant, the massive amount of petroleum needed to irrigate where there is no water, harvest, trucking for processing, energy for the processing machinery, packaging (not to mention plastic is made from petroleum which makes most of the containers the food goes in), trucking to distribution centers, trucking to stores, driving car to grocery store to purchase, using energy to cook, energy for waste disposal....get the point..on and on goes the oil story. Now in an already overpopulated world that relies on a process that will come to an end in your life time Pro-lifers are advocating adding to this problem with unwanted babies.
It is immoral to add to our population problem because you think this magic moment of "sperm meets egg" is where the sanctity of life happens. Let this child be born into a world full of imminent suffering because you want to take the perceived moral high ground. At some point in the future our population problem is going to get bad. That means mass starvation because our top soil is infertile due to Monsanto's chemicals. The game will be over without petroleum. Beter to be humane now, and quit this idiotic debate. Abortion should be subsidized by the government, as well as willful sterilization. People should be given government money for having themselves sterilized. I'm not trying to change the subject onto Peak Oil, but I'm saying that it's very relavent to the big picture...and that picture is where morality should start.