Given the choice that we have now, obviously most choose to make their own. Take this choice away, which you would have to in order to make this happen. Everyone adopting, will resent it, and everyone breeding won’t want to give up their child.

Now, my last point is on your “after all is it just not wrong to say you want a child but then say “But that one’s not good enough for me”

No, that is not wrong. The couple who have died or abandoned the child should have not conceived it in the first place, its irresponsible and cruel.

children are a product of love, by your wordings and sentiments i feel you lacked love as a child, or you would realise the bond, love and connection to your OWN child is a force like no other, adopting just isn’t the same. However, those that do may be under the illusion they feel the same, because often they adopt because they can’t have their own.

Besides, we are not saying progress is wrong, progress will eventually help us to live causing as little harm as possible.

Now by remaining realistic I mean exactly that. The human race will not annihilate itself. It will die off naturally as any other species on this planet that has been extinct and replaced by others for millions of years (and thats about 100.000 times longer than the 2011 years the catholic/christian influenced mankind is counting). In the last 100 years (not even a timeframe if you look back at the big picture) the progress has made major leaps. Whether you like it or not, you are ENJOYING the blessings of progress, be it the internet, your laptop, your toilet seat, the fact that you can attend school, the fact that food is available 24/7 and the water is clean and safe to drink, you don’t have to die of flu and get other medical treatments that not only keep you alive but also rid you of unnecessary pain and suffering, which would eventually cause you to die at the age of 20 (and this was considered VERY OLD age a few tens of thousands of years ago). You say we are greedy. So are you. But you are worse. You still take things for granted as a lot of responsibilities have yet to be faced by you. It is YOU who don’t value life as YOU are the one who suggests that the planet is better off without a major part of its life cycle.
I suggest you keep dreaming. Dreaming is good as it makes you go for it and do what you believe in. However, be realistic, child. And don’t watch TV or read dubious books. Think for yourself. The world is complicated, but it is also balanced. Where there is evil, there is the same amount of good happening elsewhere. Make the good happen yourself, don’t expect the world to be fair and just, it owes you nothing. Only YOU owe yourself a good life, for what its worth.

In the “Water of Death” episode, I thought it was ridiculous how they called water a “destructive force” when it was only claiming back what we had forcefully taken and held on to for hundreds of years. How can they say it was the “water of death” when it brought back life to the places we’d left barren? Yes, the aquarium deaths were sad, but it wasn’t the water that caused them.

It was actually really arrogant to keep calling nature the one who was destructive and violent. The series is also inadequately named. It should be called “Human Civilizations Without People,” because that is the main focus of these films. In sort of a twisted, human way, we still see ourselves and the cities we built as being “the world,” even when they no longer matter. In one part of the “Invaders” episode, we think that other animals will think of us as the stuff of legends, as if we’re gods.

The series really focused way too much on what would happen to our buildings and such and not enough of how nature would take over once again and begin to clean the air, the seas and bury our poisons. The outcome would be beautiful. “Nature is our enemy,” the series seems to say, “fear and fight it.”

If you really want a good book (as I think someone mentioned here before) which is fascinating, unbiased, meant for a more mature audience (yes, I remember seeing that tower fall, I don’t need to see it 10 more times..), and gives you more than you’d think it would, definitely check out The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. Read it all the way through. You may be horrified, sorrowed, confused, saddened and numb, but you will be changed and you will begin (if you have not already) to be able to find your purpose. There is none of this HUMANS-ARE-THE PROTECTORS-OF-THE-EARTH-IT-IS-SUCH-A-TRAGEDY-THIS-ONE-SPECIES-IS-GONE-WHO-WILL-EVER-FILL-THEIR-NICHE??!-nonsense.

I still have 4 more episodes to watch, but unless they are much much different from the previous ones, I doubt they’ll be worth watching. All in all it was over-sensationalized with the fake-static and general bad-horror-movie sequences.

Not really worth the watch, there are better documentaries and books about this out there.

And yes, I agree with Tabitha Ebert, there are a lot of young people who are becoming more aware of the world which is being passed down to us (I’m 19) and it becomes clearer that something must be done.

Nature is tough and resilient, but at what point will it no longer be able to erase our growing footprint?

And as @phillipirving: said, you will only continue to get better!