I never really thought about environmentalists keeping quiet about overpopulation due to having kids. It’s a very good point, and something that annoys me about parenthood in general. Surely, if you’re so compassionate and loving that you NEED to have children (children that are of your own flesh and blood as opposed to, say, adopting an already existing and needy child, which is inifintely less selfish in my opinion), you would not want these children to grow up in a flooded/drought-ridden resource-bare environment? I do not understand one bit the decision to create life only to place it in a starving (in every sense) world. It reminds me of torture.

Environmentalists generally take the view that it is better to adopt a pet than get one from a farm. I would extend that to human animals also.