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%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.
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