Opinion: Should I bring a human into the world if humanity faces an uncertain future?

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Kelli Maria Korducki is the author ofThe first thing people want to reassure me of, when I mention my ambivalence toward having children, is that I’m young. I get that it’s meant as a permission slip to wait and see – a pastime afforded the young for their time to spare. Only in youth can you wait with gusto. “Young,” of course, is relative.

Although Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks were a far cry from policy recommendations for population control, some of her critics on the political right were swift to make that equation. When I returned from vacation 10 days later, her remarks were still being digested by media – another shock of chronology, given attention spans in the 24-hour news cycle.

Climate change has not yet had its “cigarettes are bad for you, says the Surgeon-General” moment; when I told my liberal newshound dad that the threat of environmental apocalypse keeps me clinging to my IUD – at least, that’s part of it – he laughed in disbelief. At least once, I’ve clicked on the targeted ad in my News Feed in which the sexy cartoon egg entreats me to throw her cousins into a freezer.

 

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GlobeDebate A nuclear bomb could go off today and your parents would still be ok with their decision to have you. Nobody has the crystal ball into the future..... what's that in the sky .... a comet coming our way you say . .. get the popcorn we have a front row seat.

GlobeDebate In my opinion, the future has always been uncertain since the beginning of time. For better or for worse life goes on and sometimes life finds a way.

GlobeDebate Lots of young folks are thinking about not having kids. That is the saddest result of our times. Our so very mismanaged, politically shameful decade(s), with no end in sight. Tax sheltered, gated, arrogance controls everything. And this is no debate darlin'. GlobeDebate

GlobeDebate YES CAUSE IT COULD BE THE ONE PERSON TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE!!

GlobeDebate If our ancestors thought this way way none of us would be here.

GlobeDebate More propoganda to influence Canadians to not have kids. It's ok, we are bringing in replacements.

GlobeDebate Please don’t. I can just imagine what that poor kid will go through.

GlobeDebate Anyone who knows history knows odds of survival were much worse in the past.

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