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This-essay is a7808062.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %POPULATION EXPLOSION 780806 Parents often seek security in their children: to take care of the parents in their old age, to fulfill parents' unfulfilled child-hood dreams, to fulfill social expectations of parents for parents, to affirm parents' perceptions of reality, to affirm the meaning which parents wish they could affirm with integrity. Thus some people reproduce themselves as a means to security of one form or another. They encourage each other to do likewise so as to enjoy the affirmation of others' that their own child-based security system is a good system. The child-based security system tends to have no built-in recognition of the finitude of natural resources on the planet---and so in the long-run tends to generate the insecurity of resource depletion and garbage manufacture. The need for security is fundamentally an emotional/affective need. It is intimately related to sexual desires, needs, feelings, instincts, etc. Sexual passion and genuine security are intimately related to each other. Coping with the population explosion cannot be successful if it is exclusively a technical process. The fundamental issues involve as much passion---as they do intellectual/rational considerations. To seek to behave wisely without passion is foolish---as is seeking to behave passionately without intellectual/rational insight. Technically oriented people are inclined to assume that the solution to the population explosion is to be found in providing reproducers with the means to control their reproductive processes---forgetting that the reproducers may have no motive to use technologies to control reproduction. Their perception of their situation may not indicate a need to control reproduction---they may be seeking economic-affective-emotional security through reproduction. No amount of technology will automatically change their motivation. The population explosion will level off only when people develop ways to enjoy the satisfaction and security within contexts in which they do not depend upon children for their fulfillment and meaning. When people's worth is narrowly defined in terms of their children and what their children do---there are many ways in which the society will occasion perverse and maladaptive behavior patterns. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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