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Education seems to lead to less breeding. Maybe a little introspection can find more meaning in life than spawning. Maybe information causes hesitation toward creating a family. Maybe foresight insists that we shouldn't add to a population problem. Or maybe we become self absorbed; too selfish to consider raising offspring. Who knows -- probably a little of everything and more in unequal amounts depending on each educated person.But I gotta say -- almost all the major problems humanity faces would be solved if the human population started to exercise some restraint...
(first in a series of abstracts inspired by other individual's characters: KatePuffTail)
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I'm starting to think that it's not just about restraining our breeding, but also investing more time and energy into said spawn
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Though it leads to a scary situation, what happens when uneducated people breed and pass on their ignorance? Though education is not a genetic trait anyway, so maybe it's not a problem. One thing is for sure anyway, consciousness raising is extremely important.
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Still delivering with great artwork and a message I can't help but consider. One question, though: why did you chose to use band-aids?
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This is essentially a character created by someone else that I manipulated here, so I was trying to pull back the nudity out of respect. But as to why I specifically chose to use the band-aids... for the life of me, I can't remember.
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Maybe educated people prefer to adopt to attempt to take the load off the completely overstrained social service system? Maybe they've learned enough about the world that they don't want to force another person into it, but are willing to help children already suffering through it. I don't know. *shrug*
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Agreed, even as a parent and an educated person I agree. There is no need to reproduce like rabbits, and those who do have no foresight into their children's future. I always want to smack that Duggar family and say "Do you know how many disposable diapers you've thrown out?"
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Maybe education can stop all the stupid people from reproducing?! 8D
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One of these days humanity is going to hit carrying capacity and after that the only way to go is down.
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I've heard one horrible explanation for this.
"Smart people wait, and have fewer kids. People who don't finish high-school or go to college get knocked up (or knock girls up) younger, and have more kids"
From examples I have encountered, it holds true. My less driven friends seemed to get Responsibilities sooner in their lives, leading to the possibility of more kids. This leads to a worry that the population is growing and dumbing.
Side note: No population growth (or economic growth) is truly sustainable since the earth is not getting any bigger.
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Birth rates and population growth are inversely proportional to quality of health services.
In areas with low expenditures on education and quality of life, the life span is much shorter - making raising a family more significant
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Within the first world, I honestly don't know what comes first... the education or the choice not to reproduce. There have been a lot of studies trying to decide if this is a cause and effect relationship or a coincidental relationship caused by something else (people who are passionate about their education and career have a lot less time to breed thn those who just live their lives).
My wife and I have been together for 12 years now. We are both highly passionate people, my wife has a signficant amount of schooling and while I'm a university drop-out I have spent hundreds of hours studying a number of things since then. We have no children. We do have a healthy sex life and are both physically capable. We just keep on saying "once we've accomplished this goal..." then there's always another.
Now, we are an extreme outliers on most statistical models, but I know many people like us to some degree. The other thing about education is it causes one to be more selective in choice of life partner, and to wait before one has finished education before committing to a life partner, or even just a parent for one's children. Same can be said of career hungry persons. But what happens when the career hungry // education hungry person meets their alleged "soul mate" in high school?
In third world nations, we definately see a trend documented in countless National Geographic articles where providing education causes a shift in focus from developing a family to developing oneself, but the question becomes - what drives this? Is the key incentive desire for education, or desire to escape squalor. I could go on to delve into the religion vs. education argument as well, person with greater education tend to be less prone to blindly have unprotected sex even when their national // regional religion teaches that is the correct thing to do.
It's a huge issue.
Key note here though... this piece captures it brilliantly and (as always) is bang-on in it's execution, at leat to my eye.
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Your line weight and foreshortening are awesome, as always.
I agree wholeheartedly that the size of the human population (and its rate of increase) is one of the most critical issues we face today, and one that has ties to almost every other current issue.
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love the pince-nez specs.
and personally i am too disillusioned and too selfish to ever have children.
plus i want to join the military, which is a shit thing to do to your kids.
maybe – HUGE maybe – I will adopt someday. a long time from now.
in the meantime ... pets are better than kids!
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Oh man, I agree with the sentiment of more education; less breeding. That's why I get so frustrated at shows like "John and Kate Plus 8 million" or any television show given to whomever is able to produce the most offspring. Having kids isn't a skill, it's something MOST of the population is capable of and it doesn't make anyone special or deserving of being on TV. It encourages people like that "octomom" lady to produce outside of their means in the vain hope they will end up on TV.
I wish the rest of the first world's population trend would follow the example of the Japanese. There are substantially more old people than young children because there isn't a whole having kids going on. Statistically less and less people of child bearing age are actually bearing children, so their population could be represented as a pyramid with the older generations at the bottom making up most of the pop. and young children and toddlers at the top. America's is almost the reverse. :/
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Oh yeah, and can't forget the "Quiverfull" movement which not only encourages members to give birth as much as possible, but also their blatant misogyny and cultish behaviour of cutting off members from sources of contradicting information. Makes me puke.
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