Kathlean Orona
Professor Melanie Russell
English 101
8 June 2015
The Defense for Large Families In Bill McKibben’s article, “The Case for Single-Child Families,” he argues that having a smaller family has less of a negative impact on the people, and world in general. Unlike most people, McKibben argues that having many children is a disservice to the world, because humans already have a very large and detrimental impact to the world, having fewer children allows people to do more for the world, and children are the cause of many people’s poverty. He goes on to say that having children is not a bad thing, even bringing up the fact that he has a daughter, and states, “…now we line in an era—maybe only a brief one, maybe only for a few generations—when parenting a bunch of kids clashes with the good of the planet” (McKibben 300). This is simply illogical. Although McKibben is right about there being problems in the world that need to be addressed, having a small sized families do not fix these issues.…show more content… He states “I know that by 2050 there will be almost 50 percent more Americans (and nearly 100 percent more human beings) than there are now” (McKibben 297). He believes that the ecological footprint that the human race has been so detrimental to the planet that it has changed how the world functions, from the weather to the plants and animals that inhabit the earth. Believing that the new children of the world will be even more detrimental than ever before, McKibben talks about how his daughter will have more waste, than many countries citizens do in their entire lives (297). He believes that if family sizes are reduced and the birth rate is lower than the death rate than the impact on the world will be