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Whether having children is ethical in environmental collapse

I want to have kids but I worry about bringing new people into a world where we're destroying everything and I don't know if having children is hope or cruelty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to create new life collides with fear of what that life will inherit, making our most basic drives feel potentially selfish.

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“Where Are You with Animal rights and our ethical relationship with nature?”

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