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> The real heroes are the ones ambitiously raising the next generation while changing the world right now.

so pedagogy and psychology researchers? giving that having biological children is the worst ecological offense someone can do in an ever increasing worldwide population? [0] how about adopting and getting into voluntary programs or even do pro-social things with your money?

giving birth on the current societal status-quo not only screws with the future of our own specie but also a bunch of others which may go extinct because of our greed

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/...

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Things are considered important in the context of humanity. Environmental concerns only exist because of its impacts on humanity. The planet does not care.

Calling having children an ecological offence is like saying that best way to reduce emissions is for all people to die.

Yeah, sometimes I think people lose track of why they support environmental movements. I've had people question my choice to have kids along these lines before. I just don't understand it - surely we only care about all this stuff because it is observed by humans? For humanity to continue, someone has to have children.

I can sympathise more with the idea that humans are destroying everything and life won't be worth living for my descendants. But that feels like giving up on the possibility of humans. I don't want to do that.

In any case, it turns out that global fertility rates are in freefall and we're facing population decline faster than anyone predicted.

Speak for yourself. We’re not all raising gas guzzling kids who eat beef three times a day.

giving that having biological children is the worst ecological offense someone can do in an ever increasing worldwide population?

Have you ever heard of fracking? Or mining Gold using mercury?

you can perfectly justify whatever you want based on whatever else... will take myself for example: i just slave workers on my IT firm because there are sweatshops elsewhere /j

like there isn't a correlation on more resources being used or explored in a bigger population?

Or RTO mandates

Pretty unbelievable how much the near urban wild life managed to actually recover during covid lockdowns.

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