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Comment by jokethrowaway | Hacker News Reader

It's mostly ideological.

Most of my rich friends in tech who take CNN seriously, don't want kids.

Whether it's to save the environment or because having kids has been painted like the ultimate martyrdom and having casual sex until you're 50 as the best thing in the world.

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You’re in a bubble if you think that people are not having kids to save the environment

There’s a percentage of couples that unfortunately have internalized the drama/scare around climate change that this is the case for.

This is not a serious or widespread thing that people believe. Go look at some actual polls to see what people believe on a macro level

I've been to a company event a couple years ago, for a big Scandinavian tech company, and the main speaker's point was this: The best thing you can do for the environment, better than recycling, cycling instead of driving a car, etc., is having one less child. So it doesn't seem to be that fringe, unfortunately.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/19/growing-sha...

2.5%. That is nothing of nothing. It is a non-event, and dwarfed by “I just don’t want kids” or “financial reasons”. Now that’s not “why do you have 2 kids instead of 3” but yeah.

You're confusing the impact of the decision with the prevalence of belief in it. While that may objectively be the best way to combat climate change, it doesn't imply anything about how many people are making that decision for that reason.

The percentage starts with a zero.

Also Christ. The oddest thing for me about America is that the power of churches never cratered.

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