Yes, yes yes Bob, I hear ya on many of your points. Infact, if not all of them. Now, I don't want any more kids, since, I am already insane enough from them, but, I do want that MOTHER'S REVENGE! No one is going to take that away from me, lol. I want to sit there someday and hear my grandbabies chime in their dad --- the same way they did it to me! ( give me this and that, why can't I have the car! what a job? are you kidding? WALK?? CLEAN MY WHAT? TAKE out the what? on and on and on... beats the drum) I am patiently waiting...
I do think people should conserve as much as possible for the simple fact that things can be exhausted. We need to think of the future generations ahead, not just ourselves. We need to turn down the thermostats, walk more, drive less, think more, talk less...
We need to appreciate more the finer things in life. What are they? Are they driving the most expensive car, living in the most expensive house, taking the greatest vacations to far away and exotic places or are they things like, planting a garden and taking pride in the whole complete salad you just grew and fed your kids, reading ( or writing) a new novel, a new Gone with the Wind and using only a pen and pad; maybe donating money to the zoo to make life better for the lions and tigers and bears hence, for your enjoyment and for your grarndchildren someday; looking up! to gaze upon the wonder of this luscious and wondrous world, to see the stars, sometimes shooting stars ( and sometimes not! sometimes freeze dried poop) the moon and to feel the imagination that somehow comes with looking up.
Is that enough to make one want to conserve any and all resources? If not, gaze upon your children's faces and imagine their children's faces...
someday...
they will be here...
asking grandpap or grandma questions.
The earth, this planet on which we call home will always be home, but unless we take care of it, and do our parts, it may not always be home sweet home.
Earth will always change and evolve. That is to be expected. Things just change. It will grow on its own, and it will also, become what we want it to be.
Do we want to live in a dump?
Do we want to have clean oceans and clean water to drink?
Do we want our children and grandchildren to have a safe place to live and play?
Do we want our family to breathe clean air?
Their are answers. But, they all take work and sacrifice and how many of us are willing to give it?
The answers are not found in adding birth control to water. Forced steriliation is a frightening comparision to a regime I read about once in books . The elite, the powerful, the rich will be excluded. People die and people are born.
Simply if one is concerned enough then care enough to put your heart where your mouth is. Walk the walk. Conserve. Recycle. Conserve, Recycle. Conserve. Recycle...