: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of joseph gathman
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 2:49 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: all those selfish mothers!
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our
inability to understan
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our
inability to understand the exponential function."
Albert A. Bartlett, emeritus Professor of Physics,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
Time will tell...
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While I agree it is time to move on from the conversation that is
resulting in criticism of peoples beliefs regarding having children, it
would be interesting to hear feedback regarding animals making the
decision whether or not to bear children. There are years in which
reproduction is reduced or
Joe, I'm not ready to append QED to your submitted proof.
First, it is telling that you omitted your original statement from the
reply history below. Here it is, QFT:
Joe Gathman wrote: "...I've always thought that having children is
just about the most selfish thing anybody could do..."
Now
Can we move on and end this weary conversation?
There's enough finger-pointing to go around re: the environmental state
of our world. We can all be proud of some of our actions and efforts,
even knowing every single one of us can do better. To be frank, the
electricity we all use on our computer
merica: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joseph gathman
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:20 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: all those selfish mothers!
> I simply cannot understand how anyone
> could think that childbearing and childrearing are
> selfi
ree" like it was when I was a child.
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news on behalf of =
joseph gathman
Sent: Sat 12/8/2007 4:19 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: all those selfish mothers!
> I simply cannot understand how anyone
> could think that childbe
> I simply cannot understand how anyone
> could think that childbearing and childrearing are
> selfish at any level.
I should clarify what I meant by "selfish". I'm not
talking about a mother sacrificing for her child (it's
what she SHOULD do, and, after all, it is perpetuating
her own alleles)
Joe Gathman wrote, "...I've always thought that having children is just =
about the most selfish thing anybody could do..." [yeah, so no thanks, =
Mom!]
I have seen the above sentiment expressed several times in this =
discussion. I simply cannot understand how anyone could think that =
childbear
