The New Yorker asks a tough question: should we stop having kids and embrace our own extinction in order to stop climate change?
In recent years, we have seen the escalation of environmental crises and natural disasters worldwide. Climate change has taken center stage as global temperatures rise, causing fires to rage through habitats, and sea levels to creep relentlessly forward, threatening coastal populations. Amidst these overwhelming circumstances, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of bringing new life into a world that seems doomed to face catastrophic challenges in the near future.
Matt Walsh discusses this in the youtube video below:
TOP COMMENTS FROM VIDEO BELOW
On the one hand I fully agree with Matt, on the other hand I’m relatively fine with fewer climate alarmist having children.
I am a millennial woman pregnant with my fifth child. I actually had a millennial man, slightly older than me, yell in my face and berate me for “contributing to climate change“ and being “so selfish to bring five more humans onto this burning planet.“ I can’t even begin to describe the amount of dirty looks and incredibly rude comments I get while out grocery shopping with my children, things ranging from “guess you don’t have a TV” to “you know there’s ways to prevent that right?“
People treat me like a second class citizen for the choice to have children which is one of the most natural things a person can do.
My mother was one of five, my grandmother was one of 11, and neither of them experienced the level of criticism that I do having the same number, or even less of children than they had. When my husband & I agreed we’d both love to have a big family I had no idea the amount of vitriol I’d be met with for my choice.
After all I thought “choice” was the ultimate virtue of the modern day.
