"We've gotta have kids! How else will there be workers to get me my Social Security!"
Posted on 12/02/2022 5:55:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When Meera Sanghani-Jorgensen was in her 30s, she and her husband began to discuss having children. They both wanted to have kids, but Sanghani-Jorgensen couldn’t shake the feeling that, by giving birth, she might be doing something bad for the earth.
“I wanted to have a child, but I was also looking at the planet and thinking: ‘Well, what kind of future will we have if there’s more of the same?’ ” she said. She thought about the diapers, the party favors, the toys, and the billions of tons of carbon emissions warming the planet every year. She felt weighed down by the consumption of her children before they were even born.
After much research, Sanghani-Jorgensen and her husband decided that having a child — a single child — could fulfill their desires without putting undue burden on an overheating world. “I was very particular about only having one,” she said.
Her husband died in 2012; in the years since her daughter was born, Sanghani-Jorgensen, 48, considered having a second child many times, but always held back. “My reservation has been exactly environmental concerns,” she said. Her daughter is now 13 years old.
Sanghani-Jorgensen is not alone. She joins a generation of people living in the U.S. and other rich countries preoccupied with how having children may worsen the world’s rapid warming.
The movement isn’t huge, but it has gained widespread attention. According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey of childless adults, 5 percent of those who cited a specific reason for not having children said it was because of “climate change/the environment.”
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I can think of many reasons not to have kids but climate change is not on the list.
It might not be good to have kids in this day and age; but, climate change is not the reason. The insanity of our leaders and the liberals is the problem. Kids of today are more likely to live in a communist dictatorship within the next couple of years.
Quit reading after the second sentence. I’m glad they aren’t having kids, they would be terrible parents.
IMO, this article is filled with touchy-feely garbage! Just one man’s opinion (correct, of course!)
Fr left crazies can stop having children, which will be great for the world.
A self-imposed one-child policy.
Since they are liberals, they will eventually try to impose their views on everyone.
Everything is “complicated” with the commies. When your life and “message” is full of lies, fantasy and deceit, it’s “complicated”.
Let me think about that??????In 1944 the climate changed each month. My parents made the decision to have me anyway. Good move on their part. I have had a great life until the 2020 election steal.
I sort of agree. Anyone who believes in climate change should not have kids.
Folks who believe the human-caused climate change story really, really, should not have kids. We need to keep the IQ pool clean and healthy and those types of gullabilities - well, we see the results on CNN/MSNBC/congress, and city streets in tents.
like i would want to have children with her/she/nuts...
Literally been hearing this same nonsense since Mike (meathead) and Gloria didn’t want to bring children into the world for the same reasons back in the early 70’s episode of All in The Family.
We have enough stupid in this country already, maybe it should be Illegal for climate change zealots to have children
If she had more kids, she would just make them feel bad for being born.
if you are a liberal PLEASE stop reproducing !!!
save the planet! end yourself!
LMAO
We can rest a little easier, knowing that natural selection still works to benefit our species. These Dunning-Kruger idiots aren’t having as many kids. Fewer angry Gretas is a huge positive, not just for reducing our stress levels, but because these morons are self-selecting themselves out of political influence over time. Their nuttiness and gullibility will die with them.
If you are so mentally unstable, or so poor at critical thinking that you don’t think you should have kids because of the climate change boogeyman…. Please just don’t… save my children’s generation from the foolishness that will clearly come from your offspring.
Democrats should DEFINITELY not have kids.
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