so, it looks like a lot in 2017, there was a climate change paper that caused some hand-wringing by comparing the greenhouse gas (ghg) impacts of individual actions with their relative coverage in educational materials. the thrust of the paper was supposed to be that the most costly individual activities (left side of the chart below) aren’t the ones that get covered in schoolbooks (mostly right side of the chart below). the fuss however, was all about the authors’ novel inclusion of the choice to have a biological child as a lifestyle decision with ghg footprint consequences.
I really don't get anti-natalist environmentalists. The effects of climate change are going to far and away hit the next generation, and the generation after that. My way of thinking is why would you even care about climate change if you didn't have kids. You literally have no skin in the game.
Anyway, I have five kids, so I don't even want to see what my ghg emissions debt is. Add in that my job is 100% travel (inspecting power plants), and I am the opposite of carbon neutral.
Then again, if climate change really is that catastrophic, having multiple kids increases the chances that my lineage will survive to the other side, and I have 5x the chance that one of my kids comes up with some sort of innovation to help solve the issue.
I really don't get anti-natalist environmentalists. The effects of climate change are going to far and away hit the next generation, and the generation after that. My way of thinking is why would you even care about climate change if you didn't have kids. You literally have no skin in the game.
Anyway, I have five kids, so I don't even want to see what my ghg emissions debt is. Add in that my job is 100% travel (inspecting power plants), and I am the opposite of carbon neutral.
Then again, if climate change really is that catastrophic, having multiple kids increases the chances that my lineage will survive to the other side, and I have 5x the chance that one of my kids comes up with some sort of innovation to help solve the issue.
I'm an eternal optimist.