Kinda defeats the point of saving the climate for our kids, if there’s no kids. A rapidly greying population is also less able to actively mitigate climate change.
Aunts and Uncles (genetic or not) are of huge benefit to children. maybe you don’t have kids. But if your best friend has a kid and you become Uncle Meow for that kid, you’ve just increased the security and stability of that kid’s life. You now are another adult in their life who can protect that kid from social and financial disasters.
Maybe the way to look at it is “we all have fewer kids, and invest ourselves in the welfare of the kids around us.”
It’s definitely also not having children.
Kinda defeats the point of saving the climate for our kids, if there’s no kids. A rapidly greying population is also less able to actively mitigate climate change.
I am not having children, but I am very invested in saving our planet for other people’s children
I would say most activists fights for wildlife rather than kids.
Aunts and Uncles (genetic or not) are of huge benefit to children. maybe you don’t have kids. But if your best friend has a kid and you become Uncle Meow for that kid, you’ve just increased the security and stability of that kid’s life. You now are another adult in their life who can protect that kid from social and financial disasters.
Maybe the way to look at it is “we all have fewer kids, and invest ourselves in the welfare of the kids around us.”
Or like… have one, instead of 50. Or God forbid you adopt.