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Several media outlets and talking heads have encouraged parents to rethink having children because human beings — even small ones like kids — risk polluting the world and causing global climate destruction.
News and op-ed headlines have come out in unabashed support of having few or even zero children over the years. One example is from NBC News Think in 2017: “Science proves kids are bad for the earth. Morality suggests we stop having them.” Another headline from the Guardian that year declared that the answer to saving the planet was simple: “Want to save the planet? Have fewer children.” Or as one New York Times writer asked in 2021: “To Breed or Not to Breed?”
A climate reporter posed a similar question to parents and parents-in-waiting in a Washington Post analysis piece this month: “Should you not have kids because of climate change? It’s complicated.”
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Climate protesters demonstrate in London, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Protesters around the world joined rallies on Friday as a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action against climate change began ahead of a U.N. summit in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
That analysis piece promoted climate guilt over having children, telling the story of one mother who “couldn’t shake the feeling that, by giving birth, she might be doing something bad for the earth.” As a result, she and her husband “decided that having a child — a single child — could fulfill their desires without putting undue burden on an overheating world.”
Earlier this month, ABC’s “Good Morning America” interviewed meteorologist Ginger Zee on “whether or not to have children at all.” Zee said the issue was a personal one for her, recounting a tense encounter with her sister over her decision to have a second child.
“When I was pregnant with my second child, [my sister] said in disappointment, ‘I didn’t think you were gonna do…
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