Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification.
David Benatar
Tag: overpopulation
#100 – Sadhguru on Happiness, Environment
In pursuit of human happiness we have turned this planet into a bonfire and people aren’t even happy.
Sadhguru
#87 – Yalom on Kids
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.
Irvin Yalom
#74 – Hearst on Relationships
It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn’t be here.
William Randolph Hearst
#35 – Linkola on Overpopulation
The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.
Pentti Linkola