May 18, 2011 10:41 PM
Big Families Are the New Green
HT: AddieBig Families Are the New Green
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, One Baby at a TimeFaith & Family, Spring 2010
Got a big family? Then you already know that you're crazy, a traitor to feminism, and a slave to the pope; you're neglecting most of your kids and robbing the rest of their childhood; you're a burden on the system in general, and you probably don't own a television set.
But wait, there's more! Don't forget, you're also destroying the earth.
Lately, it's become fashionable for radical environmentalists to denounce large families as irresponsible, even selfish. Maybe you heard the remarks of the chairman of the U.K.'s Sustainable Development Commission, who said that, out of respect for the earth, couples should be legally limited to bearing two "replacement" children.
And yet, if we can get beyond the inflammatory rhetoric, do radical environmentalists have a point? Should we slow down a little? It almost seems like common sense, especially when you're having one of those days when you do feel a little crowded by the swarms of ravening locusts -- uh, I mean, treasured offspring who share your last name.
After all, aren't Catholics supposed to be good stewards of the earth? Isn't it true that we "lotsas" are using more than our share of natural resources, burning more than our share of carbon, and just plain taking up too much space?
Probably not. Moms of many already know that the work of caring for seven children is not the same as caring for one child times seven. In some ways, it's easier. In the same way, many large families actually have a small-er carbon footprint than a typical family with one or two kids. A household of nine is not like a household of three times three. It just doesn't work that way.
Read more at Faith & Family - and then, continue to be fruitful and multiply!
That's the Curtis family in the picture - Easter 2009. Did I mention big families are FUN?
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Comments
Amen to that! The "new green" is plain common sense if you are REALLY into environmentalism. How much more efficient--to raise a dozen in ONE household! All SHARING the same energy resources etc. Talk about good stewardship! Keep on keeping on--(And having fun!) :)
Posted by: llcolton | May 19, 2011 1:29 AM
