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Are Humans needed?
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You wrote: Am I wrong for finding a measure of the same in the words … 'In my humble opinion there has never been a need for humans' Is this a non-believer adopting the musing of the Gods?
Maybe you are right. Anyone who considers the fate of humanity or its importance can be accused of adopting the musing of the Gods. It is unlikely to enter the consciousness of other species if we were to disappear.
However, there are other alternatives besides expending more finite resources or by adopting fiercely draconian measures to deal with our population growth. We can provide contraceptives to the general population including school children along with instructions on how to use them. We can see that more girls are educated. That has been shown to reduce the number of births per female. We can promote other expressions of sexuality such as oral techniques. We can accept homosexuality or childlessness among women to a greater extent than we do. Kevin Rudd accused Julia Gillard of being childless. A woman is not less valuable if she doesn’t have children. It has also been shown that in countries where there is a high child mortality people will have more children in hopes that some will survive. We can provide better medical care for mothers, infants and children.
Unfortunately some religions oppose proposed methods of population control. At the Cairo Population Conference Catholic representatives who opposed contraceptives and abortion got together with Muslim representatives who opposed education for women to scuttle recommendations of the conference proposing those initiatives.
Opposing religion where it interferes with population planning was not a key theme at the Global Atheist Convention. I hope there will be another GAC where religious opposition to population control will be considered. I also hope that members of the religious institutions will bring their religions into line. There are encouraging signs that this is happening. The retrogressive attitudes of the Catholic Church in this area are apparently being ignored in both Ireland and Italy which have much lower birth rates than most other countries.