Kids and Climate Change

The carrying capacity of the earth will be reached whether you have children or not. So the consideration is different: whose descendants will take up that carrying capacity. If you, as a person concerned about the environment, opt to have children, then, statistically speaking, you are biasing the future composition of the human population toward being more concerned about the environment (since your kids share you innate predispositions and will be raised in the familial and cultural milieu th

Having kids is a far more selfish act than not. Our species and our planet would be way, way better off if about 9/10 of us elected not to reproduce for a few generations.

You’re in a bubble if you think that people are not having kids to save the environment

Most people who choose to have children don't do so to enable society structures to persist though. I could argue that by not having kids I'm saving the planet from the effects of over population?

Then your kids won't have a chance to make it better.I'm all for lessening the load of the population on the planet...I see that happening now. But I don't think it means not ever having kids.

Not having children is actually making the world a worse place. If your decision to/not to have children is about your impact on the world, you should choose to have several children

Not having children because of climate change really seems like a terrible idea. More people increase humanity's power to solve problems.

I tend to have a more optimistic view of life and I have 3 kids. I want to support a world that makes things better for them. I’ve always found the “make less people” claim overly patronizing. It’s fine if you don’t want kids, but the kids today will be running the nursing homes, fixing the infrastructure and running the country when we’re retired. I want to help raise this next generation with good moral values and work ethics. I should be able to make that choice.

(Implies the lesser human who think having kids isn’t a low key evil for killing the earth)

You’re making a lot of assumptions about me knowing nothing about what I do or will do in the future. For the record, having kids is not a noble deed and does not automatically result in a better future. Overpopulation is a burden on society. Having kids is a mostly selfish act because most people would rather have their own kids than for someone else to have more kids and they have none. Besides, who is going to finally enjoy this better future? Or are we just supposed to perpetually kick the c