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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article fails to address one of the main causes I see people list for not having kids. It's, "Is it okay for me to bring a kid into a world this fucked up?"

A lot of young people are deeply certain that they're going to have to live through an ecological collapse and climate disasters. Why would they want to have a child, and be constantly faced with the fact that their kid is going to have a worse life than them. That their grandkids may not know what seasons were like?

It's also so ridiculously expensive now. It's not worth it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I'm 60, I asked myself this at 20 and answered no and had a vasectomy. Not just for any kids but for the biosphere itself, we in the developed world in particular, walk heavily upon this earth.

    The destruction is accelerating I guess and is more obvious now but it's been like this my entire procreating life, yiu just had to actually observe.

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