> Why would you want to bring children into the world with global warming, mass climate migration and other horrific things likely to happen within their lifetimes?
Because not bringing them in is defeatism. Suicide in fact.
If you want to solve the problem, children are ones who can do it, and your task is to prepare them to do it.
If you flunk from this, you are the reason the world fails.
> If you want to solve the problem, children are ones who can do it
Yeah, but maybe not human children.
If anything we need more non human children on this planet, we are attempting to fish the oceans dry, there's less than 10% of old growth forests still in North America.
Almost every ecosystem on earth is severely degraded due to human activity. If aliens came to visit they might logically assume that humans are at war with nature.
We are living in a slow moving apocalypse and we don't even recognise that fact because we think that this is normal.
What baffles me since I first studied ecology in 1990-s and to this day is this inexplicable divide in certain someones' minds between "us" and "earth".
There is no such thing. We are the one, the unity.
There is no border, no difference between "ecosystems" and "us". The whole biosphere is a single, very complex, but undivisable system. Get rid of any tiny single part, like a single human being and it responds.
In this light, I see the notions like childfree or extinction rebellion as cancer. People doing this do not even attempt to understand the real consequences of their actions.
Because not bringing them in is defeatism. Suicide in fact.
If you want to solve the problem, children are ones who can do it, and your task is to prepare them to do it.
If you flunk from this, you are the reason the world fails.