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How climate change complicates decisions about having children

I can't decide whether to have children because bringing new life into this dying world feels both cruel and like giving up on the future.

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Environmental collapse transforms the fundamental human drive to reproduce into an ethical dilemma between hope and harm.

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“Where Are You with Environmental grief?”

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