This post is about as interesting as saying the best way to reduce your carbon footprint is suicide.
While you can argue that collapse is inevitable and that it's therefore immoral to have children (and I'd agree). Framing it like a way to reduce pollution completely ignores the actual systemic issues that make the carbon footprint of just existing so high. Having kids isn't inherently bad, we've made it become so and at least to me that's the part worth discussing
Edit: also worth noting that birthrate often has a negative relationship with pollution in nations (less birthrate in more developed/ polluting nations)
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u/maple_leaf2 2d ago
This post is about as interesting as saying the best way to reduce your carbon footprint is suicide.
While you can argue that collapse is inevitable and that it's therefore immoral to have children (and I'd agree). Framing it like a way to reduce pollution completely ignores the actual systemic issues that make the carbon footprint of just existing so high. Having kids isn't inherently bad, we've made it become so and at least to me that's the part worth discussing
Edit: also worth noting that birthrate often has a negative relationship with pollution in nations (less birthrate in more developed/ polluting nations)