By Lauren Fernandez / CTV News

  • roo@lemmy.one
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    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.

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • Beanedwizard@lemmy.world
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        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?

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

          • Drusas@kbin.social
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            You might want to actually speak to people who have no children and plan on having no children. What you say is largely not remotely true. In fact, many of them choose not to have children because they are concerned about the future.

          • halferect@lemmy.world
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            I don’t have kids,don’t want kids and have no plan of having kids,but I have family and friends with young kids and I very much don’t want them to live in a nightmare environmental disaster. So I think I do have a stake in the future since it effects everyone I love and care about.

          • Redacted@lemmy.world
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            Some of us value humanity itself, marvel at our technological achievements and hope that one day our species will stop it’s petty infighting and venture out to the stars.

            Don’t tell me I have no stake in the future, I am way more concerned with it that any of my childbearing friends or family.

        • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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          Because you’ll raise them to want to make things better? If everyone who sees the climate crisis as a problem doesn’t want children, what does that mean for the next generation?