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Your Life Isn’t Over if You Have a Kid
And you don’t need to be rich to raise one, either.
I’ve read at least three articles on Medium recently about people defending their right not to have children, why we should stop breeding, how much we lose by having children, etc.
This latest piece by Wudan Yan is what really inspired me to take this further, however. I get it — the world is in major shift. Everything people have been taught is in upheaval.
Frankly, though, I’m terrified that a “scientist and environmental journalist” has enough faith in the human race to think making the choice not to have children is an intelligent and beneficial thing for the planet. It’s true, it will definitely encourage the faster extinction of our race, but I find the idea of having to live during that process to be pretty frightening.
Realistically, could you imagine what the world might be like if scientists and environmental journalists, or other people who are conscious of the horrid effect our species is having on this planet and are working to create change decide to stop producing the human future?
