I gave a /significant/ amount of thought to the question of whether or not I should have children many years ago, and came to the conclusion that I should not.

I gave a /significant/ amount of thought to the question of whether or not I should have children many years ago, and came to the conclusion that I should not. Climate change never even entered into the equation. For me, it was a simple decision, albeit one with many factors. I made an admittedly somewhat selfish choice, but one that I knew I would be satisfied with, to pursue a specific set of life goals and to avoid things which would impede or redirect me from those goals. While it's certainly true that many people throughout history have had children and mostly ignored them, I could never do that. If I did somehow end up having children, I would want to be a good parent and actively involved in their lives and their education, which would mean giving up on my other life goals. So, I decided I would not have children. Many of my friends have children, and many others do not. These things come up in conversation and the same kind of thinking seems to dominate, and we are all the same generation (Xennials/older Millennials). Everybody made their choice off the basis of what their goals in life were, with the next most important factor generally being economics. Nobody was concerned with whether climate change presented an existential crisis that they wouldn't want to bring children into... we're humans after all, and we rely on getting better over time as each generation discovers new knowledge built on top of the past. Given all that, I feel like this article is an argument against a straw man.