Michelle Teheux
1 min readApr 6, 2022

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I don't know why people with your mindset always claim people like me are going to jump to "dangerous" solutions. There is nothing dangerous about asking people to refrain from having large families. The world has far too many people and we need to reduce our birth rate immediately. Animals are going extinct. Even birds and insects are dying off. My dad grew up on a farm and never saw a deer until he was almost an adult. Today? I've seen them running down the main drag in my small city. You know why, right? We have taken away their habitat. They have nowhere to go.

There is not more room. We all require much more space than just the small area where we live. There are resources amounting to very large areas being pulled to support each of us. The water, food, medicine, clothing and energy you and I and every other human (especially those of us who live in the U.S., where we are especially wasteful) is killing the planet. The most irresponsible thing anybody can do is have too many children. It is selfish and destructive to keep having more children than the world can support.

Plus, 20 children? Are you serious? No woman should be having 20 children. I really hope you are joking, but that's a bad joke.

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Michelle Teheux
Michelle Teheux

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