I am biased, as I am the father of a wonderful (adult) child. Some thoughts. 1) Being a parent was the absolutely best thing that I've ever done and experience

I am biased, as I am the father of a wonderful (adult) child. Some thoughts. 1) Being a parent was the absolutely best thing that I've ever done and experienced. Nothing IMO, can compare to this. 2) Climate change was not (ever) a consideration for us in the late 90s. Though the climate wasn't that great back then (fairly hot preceeding decade, a few years before the pause). 3) Economics were definitely a consideration. I was making good income at my job, my wife was enjoying her life working at a museum. We could easily live on what I made alone (though not what she made alone). Additionally, we live(d) in a LCOL area, compared to the coasts. Honestly, the LCOL areas are IMO a much better place to consider raising a family anyway, from an economic viewpoint. Some LCOL areas aren't great from a security or environment standpoint, due to years/decades of pollution and terrible politics. But in this day and age you can choose where you want to be. There is nothing special about the coasts, and much to be gained by not living there. All this said, there are many valid reasons for not wanting to become a parent. But climate change isn't one of them. For the simple reason that, despite protestations of many, the climate has always changed, and humans have either adapted to these changes, or died out. I recall from middle school biology, a definition of adaptation to an environment given. When a species can reproduce in its environment, it is said to have adapted to it. This has quite a bit loaded into this definition that is not spelled out in detail, but the point remains that you need to have line of sight to food, shelter, security, etc. in order to be able to consider procreating. Some points about population collapse are worth noting. When a society fails to produce sufficient children such that it can sustain itself and its quality of life, it eventually reaches a point where there are too few young people to replenish what you lose. When that occurs, you get something similar to what we see today, in terms of insufficient number of workers available to work. That case could be "fixed" by improving the healthcare, compensation, and social security nets right now, but in the future, with insufficient offspring, no amount of additional incentive to work, will create new workers for you. Put another less sympathetic way, not having kids because of irrational reasons is an automatic Darwin Award nomination. It is species level self-own. An L. The gene pool only propagates the winners of adaptation. So if you don't adapt, i.e. reproduce, your genes are not going to be in the gene pool. Which, is the literal definition of the Darwin award. Have kids. Its worth it. Every last second of it.