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If life is so bad on Earth, why doesn't one just jump off a bridge. Is one so tough, such a martyr so living in this world. What about all the joy, beauty, and hope in life?

People who spend their whole lives fighting passionately for causes they belive in; economic justice, the environment, civil rights, and then choose to not have kids are saying "I give up, nothing I have learned or cared about is worth passing on to the population of my country or to the world".

What do you think would happen if everyone who (rightly) believes the health of the Earth is worse for human's impact on it, if all these people stopped having kids? The United States would become a country completely populated by those that belive it is god's will that the multiply and subdue the Earth.

Choosing voluntarily to not have kids is waving the white flag of surrender.  It is forfeiting your right to have an impact on what happens to our beloved planet in the centuries to come.

-Ian

posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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