Why are people so fucking stupid? I argued with someone on Facebook months ago that said the world isn’t overpopulated, just some countries. I told him that the world can hold a finite number of people, and it doesn’t matter where they are they’re still hurting the planet. My analogy was that a house with 500 people in it is still crowded, it doesn’t matter if they’re in different rooms. They just now wrote back saying that the world isn’t overpopulated because “visas and immigration are a thing.” What the actual fuck is that even supposed to mean? It just makes no sense whatsoever. If someone has ten kids and sends them to ten different countries, that’s still DECUPLING your carbon footprint.
It was also implied that I’m “ethnocentric,” because I don’t want people preserving their cultures. Um, no. First of all, culture can be preserved in a number of ways. If you take a kid from country X, raise them in country Y, to hold the values and social norms of country Y, to speak the language of country Y, I don’t care if he’s black, brown, white, or blue he still belongs more to country Y than country X. Culture is more a social thing than a genetic one. Look at the US for instance. My high school best friend was born in Mexico and raised in the United States. Her family was very traditionally oriented, believing in a nuclear family unit and her parents had kids. But she herself was childfree. She could still speak Spanish, loved traditional Mexican food, and visited Mexico periodically. She embraced the parts of her culture she liked and rejected others {the idea that a nuclear family is the way to go}. So let’s not get racial and cultural lines mixed up. Also, even if someone wants their nuclear family to be racially homogenous, you can still do that with adoption. There is no reason, none whatsoever, why you can’t “preserve your culture,” by adopting a child from your native country. I also object to the idea that I’M the one being insensitive because I advocate for adoption. This person is the one being insensitive if they think “preserving the culture,” is more important than giving kids loving homes.
If you want to preserve your culture, cool, I want to preserve mine too {not by having kids obviously, by speaking my native language, visiting home when I can}. If you don’t want to preserve your culture, that’s cool too. In the future it won’t make a difference anyway, if something else doesn’t end us andromeda will. But don’t act like having a bunch of kids is “preserving your culture” and don’t fucking call me ethnocentric for caring about the planet. There won’t BE a culture to preserve when the Amazon’s in ashes and people are dying of thirst.
Lock him up or put him down.
Stolen from Shiny.