My ideology is not mainstream, so of course it will sound “bullshit” to the majority. I have formed my ideals after years of research and I am going to stick to it.

Remember that opting out is not about living a carefree life, but rather the bigger question is what kind of world is waiting for the next generation when they grow up. Given how the world is controlled by greedy corporations, I can only imagine unemployment and atrocities going through the roof in near future. There are consequences of boundless, reckless growth which unless we address ruthlessly, we have to witness a civilization collapse in this century.

Of course, not having a kid is not a solution to the population problem, but it is a part of the solution. Driving as less as possible is also a part of the solution to road accidents caused by frustrated drivers in congested roads.

VHEMT is a very commendable movement.

First of all none of the 5-6 paragraph which required you to google search some link and paste in second sense actually nullifies or rebuts any pints i raised.

You seem to be reiterating the same misconstrued sense of reality. You seem to have taken a convenient choice and are just labeling it as your contribution.

For me that is “bullshit”. You are not doing anything for environment earth but you are helping yourself so that you can have a carefree life and enjoy. Lot of such pretentious people would cause more harm to the planet by other means wasting resources/not using public transports/using carry bags and others than actually contributing.

If everybody goes by one child per family the population would actually decrease. If people follow your idiotic ideology there will more mortality rate than birth rate and more than half of the population will be old.

Your desperation for a self approval is visible in the two comments and the mail you send me to read your reply. Finally i am not writing these comments for you to opt out i donot care as there are many sensible people out there. the comments are just to give any reader a sense of reality than your ticking population bomb ticking hypothesis.

Population and limited natural resources is a problem but not having a child is not a solution. If road accidents are problem then solution is not to stop driving and million other parallel i can give. It is as simple as that yet not that simple as you think to solve.

You need a lot of thinking to do. Check out the facts and figures and analyze just relying on some other views are not enough. You did not do that but for anybody else i would request to check out facts before taking such major step. If you do not want a child it is choice everybody has a right to take but don not label it as achievement/contribution novel job to feel good about yourself. Take it as a personal choice you took nothing else.

Having kids leads to all the reckless self-destructive “growth” we call modern civilization. If you have one, do it because you really want to experience parenthood, instead of throwing weak justifications of how you are raising productive members of society.

This is not about righteousness, but following my own idea of occupying a small footprint on this planet. Opting out of children is basically a part of the solution to overpopulation. Just my act alone is surely trivial in the big picture, but it means I am not responsible for the consumption of food/water/space by another human and his/her descendents. There is no guarantee how the next generation turns out, and the benefits do not outweigh the ecological cost to me, particularly when the earth is inhabited by 7 billion of us. We are the nothing but a cancer of the earth.

Humans die, for sure, but remember we are adding 250k new humans to this small planet every day (births minus deaths). Can you really believe how horrible this growth rate is, when we have basically overshot the carrying capacity of the earth ? Moreover, having a baby in the developed world is an ecological crime, and this has been said decades ago.

I feel that opting out is the most responsible thing I have ever done in my life and no amount of bingo-ing out of ignorance of the real facts is going to change that. With my free time I can actually focus on volunteering and conservation efforts, and raising awareness of the impending population crisis. There is so much to do that a normal parent just can’t do, they only pass the real tasks to the next generation, ad infinitum.

There is a reason the childfree are on the rise. And all of them are educated, with a capacity to think beyond “family”.

It is sad that I am losing and will continue to lose many of my friends who think in terms of right/wrong like you and willfully ignore the natural cataclysm we are heading to at a breakneck speed. Technology is not going to solve that, for sure.

The reason you wake feeling light because you have no responsibilties and not because you have done something great.Like you said you wrongly classified your ignorance and slackness as “trivial achievement”.

Child is not a plastic bag that you dont use one and you reduce pollution. Plastic dont decompose but humans die. In a world where there are so many less privileged people somebody like you who can raise a child with all amenities to be good person helping the society to chosse a twisted/false sense of righteousness is sad!!

However, for the titles, I need to write a script that will extract the titles from the xml file and add the caption in the .picasa.ini in the album folders (only those that are live/synced):

[yourfilename.jpg]
caption=[your caption]

After this, you need to switch off the “always scan” for that folder to “never scan”, and then switch back, so picasa reads the .ini file again. Now the captions will automatically sync to the web album.

Life is one big adventure and lets use the limited time and energy we have to its full potential.

Cheers brother, ride on and ride hard.