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I agree overpopulation is the main problem and I don't have kids and won't be having them. However, I have seen up close how impossible it will be to get people to voluntarily have zero or one kid. We would have to make it a law, like China, and that brings up civil rights issues.
My brother and his wife have both worked for years as environmental lawyers. He worked on the Exxon Valdez case , wolf habitat, old growth forests, etc. She has been working on getting judges to rule against new coal fired electric plants. She works full-time for a non-profit enviromental law firm. They own a prius and a hybrid SUV.
So they have one 3 year old girl and what do they do? Adopt? no Foster? no She's pregnant again. And this is a couple who didn't enjoy the first pregnancy or the whole infant period very much and had said they probably wouldn't have another kid.
It reminds me of my work 15 years ago with my local Sierra Club chapter. The overpopulation committee chair was a guy with 8 kids. Apparently he saw the light a little too late.
Kind of a metaphor for humanity.
--Kieran
