Unit 4- Ethical Issue Essay

Who Should Reproduce?

I believe that the U.S. should no be so worried about under-developed or third world countries reproducing when the "typical U.S. child consumes the same resources as 30 children in India and 300 children in Ethiopia." This is crazy! I agree that population growth can put a strain on resources, I mean then more people are using them up, and espescially for the U.S. if they are being used at that rate. If parents would get the conserving resources or use sparingly ideas into their kids heads then maybe it would help to consume less and preserve more. I'm sure more resources would be available if there was a decrease in population, however though deaths are occuring babies are also being born. It shouldn't have to come to the point where we have to dictate how many kids someone can have or who can have them, we should have the commonsense to know what is happening and what we can or can't do to help. I believe population growth should be worried about if we continue to use all the resources the way and at the rate that we do, before it's too late!