A poem of vehmnent bemusement inspired by this article
“Stop having kids” say VHEMT,
With obvious narcissistic intent,
“Enjoy your long life full of pleasures
Using up all Earth’s natural treasures,
No need to change your unethical ways
Or your environmentally destructive sways
Live big, free of burden and responsibility
Who cares about generational liability!”
The passion of this self centred movement
And it’s unbridled deludement
Has nothing to do with saving the Earth
Or helping the people across it’s round girth,
Forget Homo mutante ever evolving
For VHEMT sees humanity disolving
And as for the future jobs
To support the old ages of these knobs,
They prefer robots to fulfill all they desire
Until the day they expire.
How do they imagine the last days,
Of the last person to feel the sun’s rays?
Will the person be incinerated,
By a sun now unabated?
Perched on the last peak of dirt
By a dead acid sea girt?
Or will the last of this movement realise,
With ironic surprise,
Though alone they might be
There’s still humanity
And they strive to make the world well
Without need to toll humanity’s bell.
It seems to me that you haven’t really paid attention to anything VHEMT actually says. Unfortunately, our current human overpopulation problem is indeed the main cause of environmental degradation, starting with the advent of agriculture 10,000. Every attempt at making the world “better” has only caused more problems. Just like individual humans themselves, empty calories have made our population grow big and bloated but unhealthy.
It is much more “narcissistic” to bring more and more children into our world against their will. How is it selfish to spare little babies a life of lung cancer and heart disease? No matter how “responsible” anyone tries to be, Earth is already overstressed by our species, and only a reduction in human activity will fix that. Everyone has their day, but every day also has its end. Both overpopulation and extinction are part of Earth’s natural cycle.
Thank you for stopping by Edith