I can't stand it when people's primary response to the whole "I'm child-free" thing is to say "If everyone were child-free, there would be no people left on the planet."

What they don't seem to realize, is that I don't really care about the future of the human race.

There, I said it. Does that make me a bad person? I don't think that it does. It probably makes me an odd person, but not "bad". Honest is a good word for it as well... I honestly don't care if anyone is left alive in two hundred years, I really don't. I'm far too busy trying to manage my own mind day in and day out to worry about what the world will look like a couple of centuries from now.

Fact of the matter is this though: Of all the child-free couples on the face of the planet, we are having a negligible impact on the human population. There are still too many people copulating like rabbits out there for us to even bring the population growth to zero.

Ultimately, if I had to think about it (the future of the human species, that is) and give an answer, than that is what I'd like for the future. The goal isn't a decrease in population (well, actually -- the planet could stand with maybe a billion less people or so, but that's another story), but rather zero population growth, where the population remains steady over time without exploding.

6.7 billion people on the planet, and I find it hilarious that some Christians (and other religious folk of other varieties) think God is going to save us all from the damage we do to the planet with our sheer numbers let alone our own stupidity (environmental damage via poorly thought out technological advances of the past, and such).

Well, He isn't. The fact is, we could use quite a few more child-free people on this planet to at least even out the population growth. Not reverse it, but slow it down and preferably halt it in it's tracks. The amount of people who would have to be child-free for there to be a population decrease would be unthinkable -- It would more or less require some kind of biological tragedy where people start becoming infertile by disease or environment. Trust me that choosing to be child-free is not endangering the future of this species.

Instead, if you really do care more than I do about what the population is going to look like in several hundred years from now for your great great great great descendants and what not, you might consider having less children so that down the road said descendants actually have room to move, air to breathe, and water to drink.

As for me... if there was no one left alive in a couple hundred years because magically everyone decided to stop having children, I wouldn't shed a single tear. Sorry. But at least I'm honest.

And so comes to pass the death of another sad argument against Child Free by Choice.