Are many people concerned over the ethics of having children?
However, the reality is that every time we eat, switch on a light, get in a car, drink a beer, go on holiday or buy something to wear or use, we are adding to our environmental footprint.
Toddlers - small beings that they are - require almost unlimited nappies, a fair amount of food, and apparently a loungeful of loud, battery-powered plastic toys.
I am not saying we shouldn’t have kids. They may well be the leaders of tomorrow, steering humanity into a just, equitable, fair and healthy future.
The new generation may indeed succeed where all others have failed, and learn lessons of the past.
Perhaps it’s just my mood.
Or perhaps it’s the media’s fault that some of us feel as if humanity is sliding from one patch of melting ice to another in a murky sea of financial, environmental and social woes.
I am curious to know if I am the only 30-something woman who has these dilemmas, worrying about the planet’s future and what we could and should do to ease the strain.ugg boots
Am I fretting needlessly? Because in the grand scheme of things, one or two more children in the world really make no difference, do they?
And as for the future - rising sea levels, bare former forests, desertification, empty seas and a few dollar bills floating in the wind - well that’ll all take care of itself.
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