I agree 400% with you! If everyone went vegan tomorrow, certainly the carrying capacity of the planet would expand. Human kind, like any species, expands up to...
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Beth
beth_h8
Oct 3, 2012 4:04 am
Sadly, with all of the biological knowledge that we have about how and why procreation happens, and all of the medical means we have to prevent conception or...
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Beth
beth_h8
Oct 3, 2012 4:16 am
The one thing you're missing is that humans have found a way to short-circuit the maximum energy produced by the sun every day. Fossil fuels essentially stored...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Oct 3, 2012 1:22 pm
No, optimists think we would stabilise or fall back in numbers by only a few percent. Why would anyone think it would be over 95%? It is easy to throw...
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Hal Friedman
hlfrdmn
Oct 3, 2012 5:02 pm
I haven't said that much in this forum for quite some time but I can't resist replying to this latest bit of outrage. It would be far better, Beth, for YOU to...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Oct 3, 2012 5:10 pm
Quoted for truth: "You , like so many others on this Forum, simply hate human beings. You assume that humans have no more worth that a bacterium. You also...
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Edith Esquivel
medithi
Oct 4, 2012 2:27 am
Hello, group. I recently bumped into the VHEMT web page, and I loved that it contained stuff I've been thinking about for a long time. I am an only child, and...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Oct 4, 2012 3:31 am
You'll hear a lot of stuff here, obviously, for remaining "childfree". But I'm going to give you a very simple and clear warning, and if you don't heed it I...
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Edith
medithi
Oct 4, 2012 5:07 am
Dear Alan Thomas, thank you for your answer. I certainly think what you describe could happen. That's one of my fears. But all the things you just warned me...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Oct 4, 2012 6:31 am
What you are feeling is the most normal feeling in the world. I think the doom and gloom, especially for those living in advanced democratic nations, is way...
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M
luxaria69
Oct 5, 2012 8:23 am
Hey Edith, When I was in my early thirties I went through the same thing. I began to feel that I really wanted a child, but realized that it was more...
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Les Knight
lesuknight
Oct 5, 2012 2:51 pm
Edith, It seems to me many aspects of our lives involve trying to overrule our emotions with our intellect. It's not easy, and most give up. Sometimes emotions...
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Snow White
schneewittch...
Oct 12, 2012 12:32 pm
I come here as a woman with some university education, but unfortunately in music, not in any of the areas which might make me an expert in areas you talk...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Oct 12, 2012 7:51 pm
I find this somewhat overly optimistic, which is amazing since I'm usually the most optimistic on this list. If you remove the line about Buddhas and Christs,...
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ES
everiman
Oct 13, 2012 7:34 pm
What absolutely must stop is exponential population growth, and some are saying that it has, that the population growth will have ceased by 2050. In one of...
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Augie
augie1015
Nov 10, 2012 7:10 pm
An Ahimsa ThanXgiving Namaste Oh, no! Here it comes again! Those dreaded holidays where Vegans "waffle" between: A) Going to a family get-together and...
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Monica
monsavoia
Dec 29, 2012 4:40 pm
Hello to everybody, I found myself thinking many times about a good, valid, rational reason to live and to give life to new creatures, but I could never find a...
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Les Knight
lesuknight
Dec 30, 2012 2:44 pm
Logical reasons for creating more of us tend to be exploitative: for the benefit of others and not the new person. To help work on the farm, for example. Even...
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ES
everiman
Dec 30, 2012 7:17 pm
Short answer is no. Long answer, we are biological creatures driven by evolutionary pressure to reproduce. The 'why' is simply that if we were not (compelled...
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ES
everiman
Dec 30, 2012 7:45 pm
Answering my own question, on whether reproduction is logical, no it isn't, if you accept the statement that reproduction occurs because if it did not, life...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Dec 31, 2012 7:08 am
I think the premise of the question is skewed. I might ask: why must the desirability of an action be judged based on how logical or rational it is? If you...
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Monica
monsavoia
Jan 3, 2013 11:33 am
I agree, of course, about the fact that the instinct governs the reproduction in order to continue the species. But we are given also reason. Which we should...
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kezia_jauron
Jan 8, 2013 6:12 am
I apologize for bursting in - just joined this group today after being on the other Yahoo group for a long time - but since you seem like a newbie too, maybe...
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ES
everiman
Jan 24, 2013 3:18 pm
Anybody seen this?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9819441/Sir-David-Attenborough-wrong-on-human-plague.html I have seen some of what is described,...
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Alan Thomas
alanslackerinc
Jan 24, 2013 4:06 pm
I love this article, particularly one point that I think some of you forget: "Humans are part of nature and also have a space here". ... [Non-text portions of...
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K.A. Seland
The_Kid_qwellz
Mar 25, 2013 12:48 pm
Indi sky It took me a while to get past the thought process you seem to be in voluntary is far better than forced Each of us has lessons to learn before we can...
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Gayle_Roller
Mar 25, 2013 11:44 pm
http://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=e3b914lcbpcfi#mail "Lessons which are not learned will be repeated"? I don't think the pseudo reincarnation...
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Augie
augie1015
Apr 14, 2013 5:05 pm
Study: Men More Likely Than Women to be Depressed over Childlessness By Katie McDonough [2] April 13, 2013 ...
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Augie
augie1015
May 4, 2013 12:14 pm
Mitt Romney's Advice for Recent Female Grads: "Have a Quiver Full of Kids" By Kristen Gwynne [2] May 3, 2013 ...
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M
luxaria69
May 4, 2013 11:40 pm
lMAO! this post was fantastically hilarious. Thank you... Now if only it was just a joke... The fact that it's not is just sad. ... [Non-text portions of this...
