Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Quality of Life Argument for Not Having Kids
500 years ago, an average child had about a forty % chance of dying before they were five. Your child is likely to live in a stable home, get spoiled and go to a good college. Even quite a lot of global warming related suffering doesn't take them out of the luckiest one percent of people in history. Yes, clima change will probably mostly affect poor subsistence farmer, so not your own children. But isn't it still immoral to have children knowing that they are making the problem worse for others? I think no. One to two% of people changing their individual decisions will do basically nothing. What we actually need is concerted government action. But your choice not to have children
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