One of the greatest humans that I know on this earth lives in Western Colorado, works as a botanist, and upholds such firm beliefs about lessening her impact on the earth that she chose not to have children. She sees that it is PEOPLE that are the issue, and nearly every problem comes back to the fact that we are too many.
On the other side of the world, wrapped in the noise and movement and rhythm of New York life, Freddy has worked construction for 12 years, is married and has two girls, and he doesn't know anything about overpopulation. Maybe he's heard something, but "ecosystem health" or "global environmental health" are absolutely foreign concepts in his world of subways, jobsites, calzones and paychecks. "If I win the lotto, pop, my wife better look out! She'll be pregnant every nine months, until I've got ten kids!...Big families are the love, pop, cause even though you're poor, you've got family there, so it's happy."
The idea that Tamara has no kids and Freddy could have ten makes my head reel.
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