Women & Men: Exploring the Sarcastic Folk Ballad of Procreation

What happens when we sing about the women and the men who cross the oceans.

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Really, there are just too many people.

Throughout history, human beings have traveled to new places, multiplied, expanded, exploited, and depleted everything around them—often (if not always) wit…