Making The Baby Decision As The Climate Changes
Baby Doomers: As climate change threatens to strain resources, women are increasingly reevaluating reproductive decisions. Now, these women are angry; People weigh parenting decisions because a child in America produces 45,000 pounds of CO2 yearly. In Ethiopia? 221
Diane Stopyra, January 29, 2017 (Salon)
“…With the UN announcing that the global population will hit nearly 10 billion people by 2050, and experts warning that man-made climate change will strain resources to a dire extent, 2016 became the year of the question: Is having babies bad?...[It often] devolves into a digital screaming match — on one side are parents and would-be parents espousing the primal human instinct to reproduce, and the folly of denying that drive. On the other side are activists who…believe the way to best protect our children is by not having more…[Caught in the middle are] twenty- and thirty-somethings torn between the desire to start a family and guilt over doing so…[Mediators say it’s an impossible choice and the debate must enlarge] away from population and toward [causes, solutions, and] social systems (and those who implement them)…[They also say the wise response is to make the best personal choice and affirm all choices of conscience]…” click here for more
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