For some reason this has been really worrying me! Don't know why... I know nothing major will happen in my lifetime but I worry for Isla's generation and her kids etc, when the earth is over-full and everything runs out.
I was watching a program about doing surgery on twin unborn babies and saving their lives. It's brilliant, its wonderful that they can do this, but a few years ago these twins would not have survived.... there would not be two more people in the world to have more kids. Multiply this by all the other babies who have been saved by surgery in the womb... yet more babies who wouldn't have been here if they were conceived a few years ago before this life saving treatment.
THEN think about all the breech births, the 'failure to progress' labours that end in c sec, the transverse babies, babies with disabilities, pre-eclampsia etc etc. Even my own experience, babies going into distress and needing a c sec. All this would have been impossible to solve years ago....so many babies now survive, when previously they wouldn't have made it.
So how is nature gonna balance it out? Are we all gonna start dying younger? Then what happens when we develop the technology to live even longer? Am I right in thinking china has a limit on the amount of kids you can have? Is that what we need? Even though it often ends in tragedy and horrendous abortions forced upon the mother when babies are 8+ months...
Should I maybe stop worrying about what I can't control? I'm just kinda depressed about the whole thing to be honest. That such a wonderful thing as being able to save more and more babies could be the ruin of the earth.
