Environment vs a real primal need!

My most favourite grad-student Cecilia points (in her blog) to this story about the environmental impact of having children. Yeah, it is called Voluntary Human Extinction Movement; the essay ends as follows:

Even Knight, in his oddly cheery brand of pessimism, thinks that the drive to breed may be insurmountable.

"It's not too likely that the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is going to succeed," he told me. "I don't think any of us are so naive as to think that 6.5 billion people are going to say, 'Yeah, let's stop breeding, this is great.' But it's still the right thing to do."

Go take a look; while you are at it, also take a look at this other link that Cecilia points to (about a couple who are going to have their sixteenth kid--I thought raising a football team is the limit for anybody; looks like I was wrong).