I've always been your garden-variety environmentalist. Then I had kids. And I had someone to save the world for, you know besides the whales. Any parent will tell you that protecting your offspring is THE most important innate drive that exists. So I became one of those MOM-environmentalists. Don't start talking about profits vs. our planet around me lest you wanna see a mama-bear in action.
But there is this new wave of environmentalists now. I keep reading on boards I belong to about childless environmentalists who believe that having a baby is anti-environmentalist. While we can all agree that children use resources and that humans have become a plague on the environment, I can't help but think these people are nuts. If it weren't for children they wouldn't exist. And I hate to get all selfish here, but I'd prefer not to go extinct AND have an ecosystem that retains it's balance. After all, who are we saving the planet for? I don't like whales that much.
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