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How many babies may I have?

big families, only children, a melting planet and a happy life

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Sep 20, 2019
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Dear Emily, 

I feel pretty passionately that population control is the only way we are going to save our planet. 

How can I then sit idly by while my friends continue to have more and more babies? It's clearly none of my damn business, but it feels irresponsible not to say something even though there is nothing I can say without sounding like an absolute …

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