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Saturday, July 19, 2008

uh, firstly a sorry for the long and winding typathon that follows:

somebody asked me the other night, whether having kids was something i wanted. i really don't know sometimes, seeing as though most kids are just stupid and gross (and sexualised and creepy and sadistic and rude, incompetent, demanding, selfish, stubborn, gangster...)
i thought about it and yes, i would like to raise the perfect human being, and then i thought about the pain of childbirth, the difficulty of child-rearing, tantrums, disciplinary actions...ew.

plus isn't there enough of a resource shortage? world poverty, hunger, devastation.. i don't see why i should add to the crisis.

then today on stateline, a world population expert ( intense! ) advocated zero percent population growth:
"The world population is growing about 1.3 per cent per year. But what it means is that the world population now is so large that 1.3 per cent of that every year is like 75 million people additional every year. And these people have to be fed and clothed and supplied with resources, and as we know from the news, there are big deficiencies - people are starving, people are malnourished."

He argued against Cardinell Pell and other politicians' "perverse"claims that an increased population growth would help with the problems associated with an aging population:
"It's interesting that most of Europe is at zero population growth and it hasn't been the end of the world."

More so, he turned to the "totalitarian state" (not my words), China, as an example:
"The Chinese recognised that that was not true, so they cut their population growth in half (by very totalitarian ways which we don't approve of)...to take better care of the people they have, rather than spend all their resources trying to accommodate new people. They have cut their population growth rate in half...And as a result of that decline, they have been able - look at the way their economic growth is going. They're walking all over the rest of world in terms of economic growth."

so i've decided. When i grow up, i'm going to have somebody else's kids.
i dont mean this in a creepy, sadistic or criminal way. I'm talking about a legal version of adoption.

kids need good care. there are so many that are going without it. Think back to the findings on homelessness in nsw - most of those kids are so badly abused and neglected that to them it's just the norm; drugs and petty theft become the necessary means of survival. its creepy, sad, unreasonable.

So, when im old(er) and rich and married (because you have to be, to adopt), i hope i can provide that climate friendly/resource friendly/people friendly solution to the population crisis.

but mostly i hope i can raise good kids.

serious much?

this is the word of moey as at 12:32 PM -

4 Comments:

At July 19, 2008 at 8:03 PM, jenny.tee said…

hear hear.!
all my points, EXACTLY. Just wait till Kitty sees this.

and add to that list: ungracious, disrepectful, money drainer, big-headed, teenage angst, saggy boobs and skin in general from pregnancy, solipsistic, know-it-all...

And I say all that because I know I've been (and probs still is) like that towards my parents most of the time.

btw you used the word 'creepy' three times in that post lol.
At July 19, 2008 at 9:27 PM, x said…

moey and philanthropy - great aspirations there girl. in fact, most people on BRW top 200 are influential philanthropists which is a great thing to see. hope to see you on the list some day gal. just don't forget me! lol
At July 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Velvet Hysteria said…

But don't you want your own kids?

I would love some of my own and adopt some if i can.

Like Angelina Jolie, but just not as many :)
At July 20, 2008 at 9:12 PM, moey said…

j.tee: i do not even recall using it once .... hahah i was going to add creepy after that

colleen: philanthropy? if it is my calling, you'll be on the top of the list ! (i kid, i kid =])

b: some of my own might be nice, but point of adopting was for me to not add to the overpopulation problem. plus, my genes aren't anything special, raising coolkids would be ..