Climate change: Causing people to reconsider having children?

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38. An important question

It will get harder for young people who want to have a child or two, to face the possibility that their offspring may have bleak prospects.

Under this depressing future projection, reproducing becomes even more an act of blind faith, a decision based less on rationality than emotion and instinct. Those who have a strong inner override may not want to do it.

Parents should not make it harder for those of their offspring who choose not to have kids, for whatever reason, but especially if it's the way the son or daughter feels they can be better equipped to survive themselves if they don't reproduce. To put pressure on them is abusive.

The planet is overpopulated and compromised, no matter what details you want to pick over. That is the truth of it. If it's not a dying world, then at least we all agree that it's a world in the throes of dynamic profound changes. Not everyone needs to have kids for emotional fulfillment or for having a happy life. That is the myth that we all need to let go of.