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1.I don't think babies or kids are cute either. You are far from alone.
2.Why are you worried about your lineage? Are you from a noble family or something?
But think of it this way, there are 7 Billion people on Earth. Why are you so special that you need to breed?
You would be helping humanity more by not breeding.
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Summary taken from New York Times article on it
>Some seven billion people are alive today; the United Nations estimates that by the end of the century we could number as many as 15.8 billion. Biologists have calculated that an ideal population — the number at which everyone could live at a first-world level of consumption, without ruining the planet irretrievably — would be 1.5 billion.
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>Weisman visits more than 20 countries and interviews countless local scientists, families and policy directors, but the problem is always the same: There are too many people.
Nothing new is necessary.
Countdown by Alan Weisman, describes many nations that have lowered birth rates without coercion to increases in joy and abundance.
Usually it results from making contraception widely available, education, and concerted PR.
"Neomalthusian" is just a catch all phrase for the modern study of resource limits and human ecological overshoot.
It's modern origin is in the Club of Rome's funding of Donella H. Meadows systems dynamics work, which lead to the 1972 Limits to Growth report and regular updates since. Other good resources are Will Cattton's 1980 book Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change,
Joel Cohen's 1996 How Many People Can the Earth Support, and Alan Weisman's 2013 Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth. There's no shortage of books and academic studies which have drawn on these more popular titles (LtG, OS, HMPCtES, CD), but they're a good intro.
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
It's all from Countdown by Alan Weisman: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316097756/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1396315809&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40