{"id":586,"date":"2008-12-02T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2008-12-09T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T11:11:48","slug":"babies-to-make-them-or-not-to-make-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/babies-to-make-them-or-not-to-make-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies &#8211; to make them or not to make them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problems of the world are underpinned by an excesisve population of humans.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/about\/dtrttrw.html#impact\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/aboutimages\/population.gif?resize=480%2C358\" align=\"right\" height=\"358\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a>The exponential growth in human population has been driven by the oil age which has fuelled food and healthcare.\u00a0 The consequence is that the footprint of humanity is too great for the biosphere.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/about\/dtrttrw.html#capacity\">carrying capacity of the earth has been exceeded<\/a>.\u00a0 Natural systems are breaking down from weather and climate to food and water; species loss is accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s population can be reduced by reducing the number of children we have.\u00a0 But this is not always easy.\u00a0 Some of us realise the responsibility and change to our lives that children will cause.\u00a0 Others just follow the call of nature.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC enters the discussion with the article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7759845.stm\">Baby decisions &#8211; adding to teh world&#8217;s woes here<\/a>.\u00a0 What is most interesting is the huge number of comments appended to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problems of the world are underpinned by an excesisve population of humans.\u00a0 The exponential growth in human population has been driven by the oil age which has fuelled food and healthcare.\u00a0 The consequence is that the footprint of humanity is too great for the biosphere.\u00a0 The carrying capacity of the earth has been exceeded.\u00a0 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/babies-to-make-them-or-not-to-make-them\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Babies &#8211; to make them or not to make them?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-9s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}