How many children can an environmentalist have without being a hypocrite?

Question

How many children can an environmentalist have without being a hypocrite?

Answer 1

None of your business and keep your own house clean before you insult anothers.

Answer 2

it is seriously not the amount of kids you have but the education you give them , because if i only were to have 1 child , but didnt educate him about the environment i guess he would be more destructive toward it , than other couple educated 9 kids.

Answer 3

Ideally, you should only have 2 children (so that they're only replacing you and your husband/boyfriend.) But you can really have any amount of children and not be a hypocrite because the number of children doesn't affect you as an environmentalist...its more how you handle raising your children (i.e. cloth diapers, breast-feeding, etc)

Answer 4

As many as they want.  The right-wing is attempting to gain a foothold in the environmental issues by whining about "overpopulation." And, again, showing their ignorance.

Look--granted human population cannot increase indefinately.  but it ISN'T.  Every indication we have is tha tpopulation growth is slowing and will stabilize--or even decline slightly--by the end of the century.

From a standpoint of global warming, we get off oil or we ruin the planet. Period.  We also need to start some sane land use and forest/reforestration policies.  Finally, we have to stop overfishing--though, sadly, that is going to take care if itself witin a very few years --because we are running out of fish.

The reason I took off after the right-wing is that their is a "subtext" to their propaganda.  If you look closely at what they are saying--it boils down to using force to "restrain" population growth of non-whites. In oteher words, its one more excuse to try tospread their racism and bigotry.  I realize many decent people are concerned about population growth--but they really don't need to be.  Basically--aside from the racist overtones the right-wing is imparting to it--it is also one more attempt to distract people from making the technological changes that are needed.