Why Is Population Growth Seldom Discussed?

[Triana]

172. Humanity is too greedy & simplistic to change its parasitic behavior

To most, it's black or white.

By suggesting that humans limit their reproduction, you're either promoting "genocide" or going against their alleged religious edict to endlessly and thoughtlessly breed. So they just thoughtlessly breed. It's not very smart. And of course it's a false choice - a false premise.

We CAN cut down on births and population without "genocide" and we CAN have some common sense about what we're doing to the planet and to each other. (but we won't)

It seems to never occur to humans to:

Instead of advertising fertility treatments and services (you can hardly turn on the radio or TV without hearing about some help for infertility), instead encourage people to have small families (or no kids) and advertise birth control methods and even abortion services (surgical or otherwise ie: morning after RU486, etc). If someone is infertile, encourage them to adopt or find other ways of fulfilling their desires rather than reproducing. Instead we pander, and give sympathy and all the help possible to infertile couples. We tell women that they were "designed by God" to be incubators (pretty much whether they want that or like it or not). But we never tell infertile women or men that they were "designed by God" to NOT reproduce (whether they like it or not). We CAN do that. But we inexplicably don't.

How about instead, we give people all the help possible to NOT have children? I don't see that happening much, if at all.

Instead of featuring and catering adverts and television programming to 'families' with children, feature and advertise to childless couples or those who adopt or get involved with community services to help at risk, poor or disadvantaged children rather than having any.

But societies (and their religions, which they interpret as some sort of carte blanche for utter illogical stupidity in this regard and which is its own brand of psychopathy) just can't figure this out it seems. At least in America where we have the morally repugnant Duggars and their "quiverful" movement, which epitomizes rabbitlike breeding stupidity as the virus it is.

"I want my OWN kids." <---- Is that REALLY a good idea considering where the environment and where our economies and human rights are today? Probably not. They call people who don't want kids "selfish" though.

Humanity will never survive itself. It's not smart enough.