Climate change: Causing people to reconsider having children?

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20. Growing up in the 50s and 60s made me decide to not have children

With the chance of nuclear war, the assassinations, the political unrest, the predictions of "The Population Bomb" I decided early along that I was never going to have kids. Also, having an aunt that was continuously pregnant for my entire childhood and teen years gave me a clear picture of how unpleasant having kids could be. (She had at least eight pregnancies with six living children and never had an easy pregnancy so she was a miserable person - and still is.)

The Population Bomb was a book that predicted wide spread starvation due to overpopulation. But the time frame that was warned about was in the 1970s and 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb It was part of my freshman core program and was a tipping point for me as an adult that reinforced my previous reluctance to have kids.

Climate change is another dire prediction for the future. While I believe it is far too late to prevent the effects, I have some optimism that humans will find a way to survive. I'm still glad that I didn't have kids.