Hello, forgive me, I am just a voyeur to the discussion. Osmar, I think =
you are mistaken. There is something more satisfying than being a =
parent. It is being an uncle. That has always been my deep biological =
urge. To spend quality time with my nephew, to give him my best 5 or 6 =
hours a
I completely agree with Laura. The fact that this woman had an abortion
to reduce her carbon footprint is quite scary. I think her choice to,
after this occurrence, search out a doctor to perform a sterility
procedure to definitively prevent any future pregnancies was a very good
choice to
As an ecologist, I am certainly sensitive to the environmental
consequences of unchecked population growth, and as a proud father of
three, I nonetheless respect (and during moments of weakness envy)
the decision of couples not to have children. I try to do what I can
for the environment by
Another third world, but with the knowledge from science
Noone to quote, but it is a well researched area in sociology, it is the
empowering of women which actually lowers conception rates, not the minimum
wage as most of us thought in the 70's
My one cent
Abraham de Alba Avila
Marine/aquatic Job Postings:
Sorry for the delay in posting this.
A while ago I asked about listservs etc for fish jobs. There are a lot of
sites here that have very different biology jobs other than fish, hope this
helps someone else,
Thanks to everyone who helped out.
Here is what I got back:
The New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy has an opening for a
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You might want to check out Scion/NIH Image too.
Cheers,
Chris
Quoting Rebecca Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Jon,
We have a protocol that uses PhotoShop and ImageJ (freeware from NIH) to
calculate herbivory 'manually' for tropical and temperate forest leaf
scans. It is a bit labour
I was wondering if anyone knows of any jobs or MS programs available in
Mexico related to ecology: research, restoration, etc.
Thanks,
Dave Perez
RPCV Bolivia '05-'07
Support is available for graduate students (MS or PhD) in the areas of
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The Social Security issue could be helped by removing the cap on % of
personal income subject to social security tax (without increasing the
maximum benefit). Currently the cap is about $100,000.
Mike Gross
Georgian Court University
Lakewood, NJ 08701
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I would disagree that this behavior promotes zero=20
fitness in all cases. If a sibling has kids,=20
then the childless individual has some level of=20
inclusive fitness. I agree that this would be=20
rare if it caused a loss in fitness, but, aren't=20
there examples of animals/plants/microbes
Thank you for your message Tim. About being a uncle more satisfying than =
a father I think that it=92s a quite personal feeling and as all personal=
options its don=92t worth the discussion. Anyway, for one be a uncle, so=
meone must have a kid. Some people could view this as a runaway from
Tim,
No doubt, besides being a parent for satisfaction, there can be other more
promising ways to be satisfied. However, the alternative you have suggested
to get satisfied by helping a nephew/niece or others' children seems not so
convincing. The point is, if everyone starts thinking to
I must say that I am very disturbed by both posts below. I know this is
Ecolog and not an abortion debate forum, but to me the posts indicate that the
woman in question did something wrong by exercising her choice to terminate
her pregnancy. Women all over the world make this decision for
Thursday, November 29, 2007, 2:53:57 PM, Steve Brewer wrote:
SB I wonder how many ecologists in the U.S., however, have considered
SB that producing children is necessary to keep Social Security from
SB collapsing. ...
Steve,
I completely agree with you. However, although I certainly respect
Oh well. Here's that old north vs south debate again. Yes, things would be
extreme if all 500 million individuals had the resource usage of the first
world.
As regards the lady who decided to be childless, its her trip and no one has any
business passing judgements on that. But if she were indeed
2 Recommended flicks: Children of Men, starring Clive Owen. (2006) Based
on a not too distant future in which humans have lost the ability to
procreate, the movie starts out with the world's baby, (youngest living
human), an 18 year old, being murdered. Then the celebrity status reverts to
a 20
My apologies for cross posting.
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Carrie writes, Thirdly, I am astonished that anyone would use the failure of
the U.S. Social Security program as a reason to have children!
It may be astonishing to us as ecologists, but we have to be aware that the
entire macroeconomic framework - Social Security and much more - is geared
For the sake of completeness: the U.S. has also engaged in forced
sterilization--definitely for the mentally ill and Native Americans. The
former was based on false notions of how heritable various conditions were,
but I don't know if the latter had any front put on it.
Krzysztof
On Nov 29,
Here is a follow-up thought. It is not a scary thought that someone would
exert their free choice due to belief this will reduce their own impact on
the earth...it is however scary to think forced abortion or forced
sterilization are solutions to environmental problems. In china there are
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