Over Poplulation

So, as noted in a previous post, Over Population is I believe, the true issue of our time that is being highlighted by our awareness of dwindling resources. It's not that there are too many immigrants in the U.S. The problem is that there are too many people in the world! We are running out of healthy land for growing nourishing food, and the clean water that's needed to support them.

And yet we keep on making babies! Even when there are so many orphaned children who are in need of love, children dying from starvation and of AIDS, still, we keep introducing new people into this terribly over-burdened ecosystem.

The Catholic church certainly will not support the cry to stop birthing new babies. The Patriarchy will certainly not support the idea that women take control over their reproductive systems. Abortion rights being an issue that is currently under attack in our Supreme Court system. The Media is not supporting the idea to slow population growth as they currently broadcast the TV commercials that state with great gushing emotion, "...A baby changes everything." Thus encouraging the viewer to change his/her life by giving birth to a another.

Maybe Women will begin to consider the personal power that comes with taking control of our reproductive systems. Maybe we will come to understand the need for, the beauty of and the wonder that comes from loving a child that has been abandoned. Maybe we can hold our cards closer to our breast.

Birthing a child is but one of the wonders that we can achieve with our reproductive systems. We can birth lots of other things, too! Things like ideas, and dreams, creations and works of art, energy and love, character and wisdom. These things come from within us as well. Let's start to consider these as potential identifiers of who we are and what we are capable of. It doesn't always have to be a human being in the form of a child that gives us our identity and defines for us our greatness.