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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 

Current mood:  contemplative

I know... Where did this come from?

I have been having some sort of remorse for focusing on my self and my personal agenda, and not doing much to help real problems that are affecting the world. I have been feeling even anger because my so called "music career" isn't taking off in the ways I envisioned. What a selfish bitch I have been. There are much bigger problems in the world than not being a "rock star". There are some freaking SERIOUS problems going on. And ignoring them, or waiting for someone else to do something about them won't make them go away.

In this specific blog we won't get into politics, wars, or even global warming, because although I believe global warming is real, some people are still convinced that it is just a theory. That problem is being debated, and that debate helps justify people who want to ignore it and do nothing about it.

What cannot be debated are overpopulation and its consequences. There is human overpopulation already, there are fewer resources already, and the population is increasing, while the natural resources are decreasing.

For those of you who are looking away from this incredibly obvious problem, let me explain it in a way that can be easily understood:

Imagine the world is a football field. For each person in it you need a certain amount of space to live, and grow food. If you start adding more people to it, you get less space to grow food, and live. At some point the amount of people will be more than the amount of space to grow food. The field is not getting bigger. The result is not only increased prices, but it can potentially lead to extreme levels of hunger and violence. That is already happening in some countries in the world. Of course there is corruption, and lack of help involved, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out what is coming if we don't start doing something to stop that problem now.

I know that children are wonderful, and all that. But it is time to be responsible and have at the most, one per couple; if not (even better) stop having them altogether. If you already have one of your own who you truly love, and decide to give your child a brother, or sister, you are also giving your offspring an increased overpopulation problem. A world in which it will be much more difficult to live in. Do you really love your child, or the idea of being a parent, regardless of what your child's life will be like? They are very different things. If you really want to be a parent, adoption would be the best bet for a better world.

Just because the joy of having a child is nature-given, it doesn't mean that it can't have harmful effects. That joy is the result of a chemical reaction in your brain. That "fix" multiplied by the amount of people on the planet times the amount of children each one will potentially have can be very bad news for everyone, unless it is done in a controlled and responsible way.

For those of you who will ask "what are you doing about it?" which is a very valid question: I have personally taken the necessary steps to do my part, and won't be able to have any children.

For those of you who say "God says that we need to procreate", that was before the discovery of penicillin and modern medicine that allows people to live 3 times the amount of time that we did when the religious texts were written. Besides, I am sure God can't complain with the procreation job that mankind has done.

Yeah, I know prophylactics suck and are no fun, but they are better than inheriting a world of problems to an unsuspecting child who didn't ask for it.

I hope I didn't upset anyone by writing all of that. My intention is not to attack people who have children, or want to have them. Just to ask for awareness and active solutions to a problem. If I offended you, I apologize, and ask you to do some research about what is going on around the world. We have the potential to be our own worst enemies without even knowing it. We also have the potential to make a selfless move and make the world a better place for future generations. If the world's resources are exhausted, no country will be safe.

Please do your part.

Alfredo.

 

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Pop Conspiracy™

 
This is a topic I'm passionate about as well. Kudos for spreading the word. Half of all primate species are in danger of extinction because of logging and urban sprawl. If animals can't survive because of what we're doing the planet, it's a pretty safe bet that we won't either. Famine is occurring in places in the world, not just because of drought and global warming, but because the land is overtaxed from what people are trying to grow and the animals they're trying to feed.

 
Posted by Pop Conspiracy™ on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 8:38 PM
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Skone Project

 
Dude, I am so there. I've felt that way forever. I believe that my generation was essentially robbed of the right to reproduce (although that didn't stop us). And why would you want to? Your kids are going to grow up to have a lesser quality of life than you did at this point. That's why I never had kids, because if I did have kids I would love them. Plus with the housing mess and job scene and gas prices and shit...I wouldn't be able to feed them if I did have kids. Smartest thing I ever did. Kids are an opportunity cost. And they're sick all the time. The one area that I think China is light years ahead of anyone is in the 2 child rule. Two people die and leave two people behind. That might be sustainable, but even they don't abide by that anymore. And if you adopt, then go crazy I say. I want to see legislation passed that would put all the names of people who have voted pro life into a giant state sponsored raffle from which names would periodically be drawn as mandatory unwanted child recipients. Then the pro lifers would change their tune when they are randomly awarded a new mouth to feed.


Thanks for the tip on that talent site. I'm going to check it out. I see what you mean about getting in early on Myspace music. If that isn't a sign of overpopulation I don't know what is. Best I can tell every man woman and child ever born has a Myspace music page. And there's a lot of really cool stuff out there. Your site is awesome! But there's soooo many tribute sites and even the really big names get lost in the crowd. Still...I'm having fun with it.


Always glad to see someone else on the right side of this issue bro. Hang loose.

 
Posted by Skone Project on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 4:16 PM
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Rob

 
Hopefully some people who do not agree with you read this blog, it is a definite topic that needs to be addressed. we Americans think the Chinese are weird for having a 1 child law, possibly blame it on communism, or something that gives us some sort of personal reassurance that america is the greatest country in the world and the right to have 20 children is in the constitution or something. we seem to have a habbit of trying to prove that we can do whatever we want because of the lack of immediate repercussions. if you had more than 2 kids, to add to the population, and your cock fell off immediately after the 3rd child was born was punishment, you probably wouldn't have more than 2 kids. but unfortunately that is not the way it goes, I think people are looking for a star-trek sort of solution where a particle replicator can just blink a meal into existance. that way they don't have to break out of their comfortable uninformed ruts.


there are so many things leading to lack of food, like feeding cattle all of our grains at a rediculous ratio, we feed cows way more edible food than we actually get out of the cow after it is dead.
but meat is Manly!! screw grains and food resource ratios!
we give our corn to gasoline companies instead of eating it...because we are all too lazy to walk.
cuz walking is for sissies, cool people have cars! screw food resource ratios!
ethanol is not a solution to the gas problem.

we use our land inefficiently for the convenience of corporations or governing bodies, we use cotton fibers, the leading contributor to toxic pesticide residue in our soils and water supplies, when hemp for example can be grown more efficently, more densly with less energy put into refining the fibers. use the extra land space for foods instead of textiles. we do that sort of thing over and over, growing food that is just for the pleasure of eating, instead of growing smarter and producing high yeild high nutrition foods.

and blah blah blah, the list goes on, I'm sure I'm starting to bore everyone.

so we are not getting any smarter about producing our foods, yet we expand our population, it would seem a very obvious problem, but yes everyone just wants to get laid and I would have to project, at least in america, 60% or more of all babies made were not planned. so it comes down to being lazy and irresponsible, a classic human trait.


thanks for the blog Alfredo!

Rob
 
Posted by Rob on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 7:44 PM
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Kevin

 
Alfredo my friend, while I can see your logic, I can't agree. You are approaching it as a global problem, not a family issue.


If a man or woman makes $500,000/year, they can easily provide for 5 children and have a right to have 5 children if they so choose. We all work hard for our resources (money) and can do whatever we want with it. If a man or woman makes $20,000/year, they can barely provide for themselves, much less any children, so logic would dictate that they don't have any children until they can provide for them.


This might be the libertarian side of me, but I think the problem lies in the fact that people are rewarded by having children. They get more tax breaks. If they are on welfare, they get more welfare. I am by no means saying we should allow children to suffer due to their irresponsible parents, but we should not cause suffering to responsible parents either. Admittedly, I don't have the solution, but a bad movie I heard about showed, in a fictious way, the possible consequences of responsible people not having children and irresponsible people having them.


I should find the title of that movie and post a link to it here. . .


And yes, we do need to procreate, it is human nature. You shouldn't be encouraging people to not have children, because others are having enough for the rest of the world. You should be encouraging people to live within their means, including in the family arena. Nature has a way of always balancing things out. Sometimes in a smooth gradual way, other times in a much harsher way. I believe if you live within your means, act responsibly, and pay attention, you, and your family, can flourish.


P.S. - Your going down. . .

 
Posted by Kevin on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 11:25 PM
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Matti [VeiL]

 
1-sorry about my english 2-this are my opinions, they are a little bit confused...just because of the foreign language and because I' not that good in explaining my self..(and also because I woke up something like 5 minutes ago) I think, more than overpopulation, the main problem is the way we are distribuited on the Earth...Why? Because if we where much more homogeneous on the territory we have we could have much more possibilities... Just Think about USA...there are something like 302.000.000 habitants in 9.629.091 km², in my country (Italy) we are 60.108.290 in a territory which is 301 338 km² ...our population compared to USA'one is 20%, and our territory is 3% of the USA's one!...Now with this example I'm not complaining about my life in Italy (I damn love this country) but if you think to countries like India...3.287.
594 km² / 1. 095. 351. 995 ab. or even worse Bangladesh with 144.000km² / 147.365.352 ab. [wikipedia rules remember XD]...where there are resources there's not to much population, where there aren't there is too much people... This is my idea of course!!! than another problem (which isn't a problem but if we have to talk about overpopulation it could be) is that our life expectation is growing and growing and growing...we're getting older as Earth's population...so if in the past we died at 50 now we die at 80 and so we keep getting more and more !!! Eventually I think your rightin what you wrote... Mattia (please if you want to answer back to me do it on my myspace so I can read...because I'm not so able to use this site XDXDXDXD...I'm too lazy to start understanding something about it) [Nice music]
 
Posted by Matti [VeiL] on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 3:24 PM
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