Do Animals And Plants Understand Birth Planning Better Than Humans? Of Course!

By Donald A. Collins | 14 October 2025
Church and State

(Photo: Victoria Pickering / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

I have been writing about this subject for years, and therefore, I’m always anxious to find more writing that confirms the obvious.

I happened upon this a piece in the surge of information that frequently comes in without apparent identification of the source. However, I thought the piece was so well written that perhaps without acknowledging its wisdom and it sort it could be published anyway.

Here it is:

Sitting in our breakfast room my wife and I watch the birds using CD the several birth nest boxes to succor and raise the their fledglings who eventually poke out their little heads and fly away to begin their adult lives.

Now that Fall is upon us, these activities cease as we also notice the foxes which foster kits under a shed in the back of our property no longer do so.

We came know about our rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks but we see no evidence that their behaviors are different.

We know birthing seasons for mammals are regular and dependent on availability of water and food, something humans seem to often ignor as our mating habits and our means of preventing pregnancies are either unavailable, ignored or thought immoral by their religions.

Again as Fall approaches the plants in our yard are going to rest for the coming Winter.

Oh, come on, you cry, at my comparison, but facts, something now eschewed by too many us, speak otherwise, as we daily watch the playing out around the planet in scenes of human distress due to lack of sustainable resources.

Lacking resources, animals and plants immediately adjust their reproductive behavior.

The consequences of human restraint as to their growth in numbers is not shared by other planetary residents.

Their numbers are trimmed automatically by natural changes in their environments. We are so stupid to believe the same thing won’t happen to us! And the timetable is loaded for disaster.

The many earlier urgent calls from expert environmental observers, who have been chronicled on this powerful web site, for limitation of our numbers has not stopped human numbers from burgeoning to nearly 8 billion, growing 4 times my 90 year lifetime with 3 billion more predicted by 2100.

The present numbers are unsustainable and we already see the effects of destroying our natural resources to meet human demands.

This growth will either be refused by human consensus or by brutal reactions from climate change or other certain forces beyond our ability to control.

Choice about reproductive behavior, observed instinctively by others in our magical, magnificent Earth, cannot be ignored by us humans without dire consequences.

As noted, those consequences are already starkly evident to anyone with eyes, yet unaddressed by by enough effective action to change the dire trends now unfolding.

While I cannot identify the source of the above, it is so reflective of my feelings about the matter that repeating it with acknowledgment is certainly in order.

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Los Angeles, CA, has spent over 60 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of 15 books: “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?” and “Trump–unrestrained dangerous liar!”.

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