I used to live in a country that had a program to get social groups to step in when friends get to child number five. If you’re poor and disadvantaged the next child is just idiocy.

The bulk of the overpopulation comes from communities with no way to stop a population boom.

But, the environmental footprint from rich Western country parents is equally nuts.

As long as you are neither problem, you’re probably going to have a child that is part of the solution.

I think it’s more a worry that you’re bringing someone into a pretty terrible world.

“Should I even be having children in this state? I would like to be a mother one day, but it’s difficult to look at the world around me and think, ‘I’d like to bring kids into this world,’ when I can see that I don’t know how long the world is going to last at this point.”

And I totally understand; we’ve totally fucked things for our kids and especially their kids.

Yep this is the point. This is why I’ve never planned to have kids and never will. The world is beyond fucked and is only getting worse with absolutely no sign of getting better. Why would I ever want to doom someone to live in these conditions?

But this lends to defeatist attitudes that refuse to solve the problems. People that don’t have children have no stake in the future.