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No(even though i fit in your description aswell), I used to think that way about many issues of the world(of which by the way climate change is not really that impactful towards the individual against kids, compared to economic issues, political,etc) until i was ~22, then i quickly realized that actually that's one argument in favor of having children.I'm not saying you cannot be selfish from having kids(just as much if not more from not having kids), i'm saying that pragmatically human life is the most efficient and important way to solve any problem.There are other more personal reasons(such as happiness, duty/fulfillment,etc) you should consider before putting priority on such issues.

This might be an unpopular opinion, yet i dare anyone to show me a point in history when having less kids was a good idea and showed better results than letting people do as they fit (because forcing people to have kids is not something i endorse, yet it sadly happened, and also is a bad idea: Look at China: more kids through a boom, then they forced people to 1-2 kids, which created a massive vacuum and nowadays China is facing not-so-bright future due to this fact , their middle class also increased massively, and we know that this results in less natality).

Sadly the socio-economic structure we have today(i'm not talking capitalism vs communism, they're both the same in this aspect) kind of forces us to have more kids but for the wrong reasons.We decay as a society when we view human life as a resource for work force for corporations or getting X/Y done, when in the past the booms of increasing populations(think post 89', or 18th century, 2500BC, roman era,etc) were mostly done because the prospects of the future were bright, thus leading adults to having more kids.




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