Go to hell, 'Negative Population Growth'

[austin_tycho]

I am one of those people that think we all need to have less babies, especially Americans, even if we can afford it (and considering how many resources a typical American uses, *especially* since we can afford it). You may agree or not, that's cool. But I was looking to find an organization to support one day over a year ago, and thought of Zero Population Growth. I did a web search, and saw there was another organization called Negative Population Growth. Wow, I thought, they must be hard-core! I'll throw my money at them. Their website at the time seemed very vague (haven't checked it lately) but I thought what the hell, I'll send them $20 for the cause.

Well, the mail from them started coming in, and it was all about immigration. Gotta keep the furriners out so there's more for us! Hey, they even sent my name to mailing lists that focused on initiatives supporting English-only signs and stuff! Which I do not give the least of a shit about. There was nothing about lessening our impact on the environment, or urging people to maybe think before reproducing- no, it's all about keeping the brown people out of our great country (legal and illegal).

They have threatened several times to drop me from their mailing list since I never sent them any more money. They are a bunch of fucking teases, because they never did drop me. In fact today I get another letter begging for more money, and an article praising Gov. Ahnuld for making noise about immigration (though apparently he can't actually do anything about it since immigration is a federal issue). So I stuffed all their paperwork in their postage-paid envelope (ignoring the 'please put a stamp here and save us money!' plea) along with a letter telling them that I have no interest in their silly agenda, will never send them money ever again, and that they should take me off any list they own that has my name on it (including the one that they sell to other organizations). I sure hope they get the hint.

Edit:
Just checked out their site- they still mention 'green space' and 'incentives for smaller families', which hasn't been mentioned in any newsletter they have ever sent me. I feel like they're trolling for Green members by being intentionally misleading on their site. Wankers.

Comments

[the-weeb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning! I've supported ZPG in the past but never heard of this other org until you mentioned it. Very misleading!

ZPG is cool. I like the idea that while we may have the right to replace ourselves (two children per couple) that we really shouldn't have more than that. If everyone stuck to that then we'd still have negative population growth because some of those kids would kick it before maturity. I certainly don't want to outlaw having more than two kids but I'm all about getting the message out there to think before you spawn and if you MUST have children, one of you get fixed after #2.

Sheena

[the-weeb.livejournal.com]

After re-reading my comment I see something I should amend - one child per person, not two children per couple. There are people out there who are successfully maintaining group marriages or who choose to be single parents. I am more supportive of group marriage than single parenthood simply becuase a baby is really too much work for one person to do a good job IMO but - I don't want to negate that as a life choice - especially when the person has a support system - family etc. It takes a village and all that.

So really, each person should get to have one child. Each individual can do the math on when they should cease procreation.

Sheena