While passing through Seattle on our way to Vancouver Island, Deb and I sat in a traffic jam. I was fuming. I like Seattle, but what had me upset was thinking about the huge push Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and other far-right billionaires are making to convince women to have more babies.
Yeah, just what the world needs, women spitting out babies like Pez candy dispensers!
My mother was one of twelve children. She lived on a farm, and back then there was logic in having litters of children. That logic no longer applies in the modern world. When I was in my early teens, I attended Duluth Open School, which was a progressive school that turned me into the environmentalist and nature lover I am today. Back then the Earth’s overpopulation was a serious issue we were all concerned about. I vowed to not have kids. When I married Deb, I adopted her wonderful son, Sean, which was great, but my bloodline (for whatever the fuck that means) ends with me.
I’m not saying that people shouldn’t have children. But one or two is a responsible number, not seven!
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and other billionaires haven’t spent much time in traffic jams, and the environmental damage to the Earth from overpopulation doesn’t affect them. They want “women Pez dispensers” because it overpopulates people looking for work. When there is a surplus of workers, labor comes cheap. It also provides more consumers (even if they have limited money).
So when you hear billionaires claiming that the human population will dangerously crash if women don’t breed like rabbits, understand that those assholes are among the most selfish people in the world.
Humans have dangerously overpopulated the Earth, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar of the worst kind.