Bill, I am in no way opposed to serious efforts to reduce the birth rate around the world. Realize that, and cease tilting against imagined windmills, because that is not what I was offering you. I'd talk at greater length about it if we were alone...at a coffee table...but we're not.

We are facing many serious problems, and overpopulation is just one of them.

saulgoldie -

It is illusory and unproductive, in my opinion, for people to engage in negative "isn't humanity dreadful?" diatribes. It doesn't help anyone. What I would say to someone who has such a dark view of humanity is, "Well, if you feel that way, then why are YOU still here? If you really believe that human beings are intrinsically dirty, wasteful, and destructive...if your basic philosophical contention is that we are bad creatures...then do the world and yourself a favor, live up to your own negative dogma, and kill yourself. After all, as long as you're still here, you are part of the insoluble problem you seem to believe in. Take action in the one way you can! ;-) Wipe yourself off the planet.