I doubt you need reminding that parts of the planet are running out of water, other parts are flooding, and industry and government leaders are sitting on their well-padded asses doing nothing about it. Is this really a world you want to bring children into? ... At least prepare your babies for the worst. Take them to high ground, teach them to survive, make them understand the price of their place in the world. Long after you and I are gone, they’ll be left with a ruined planet — and they’ll wonder, as they flee, why anyone would bring life into this world. Industrially accelerated global warming means that privileged people having babies now in the western world will be seeing our offspring suffer in ways that are usual and normal in zones of drought, famine, war, and global food crisis - with the addition of a dying biosphere. And, most (but not all) privileged parents of young children are diverted from political resistance work for various reasons, in a culture lacking intergenerational support and healthy communities. Yet parents, too, are responsible to do something to dismantle the harm that has already stolen the future of many young humans and other species on this planet. Deep Green Resistance works for political education that can foster full-range resistance. We are not fans of the Zero Population Growth analysis to resolving the ecological crisis. We see the problem as the culture of civilization: global militarism and the industrial economy. deepgreenresistance.org grist.org/article/why-ill-never-have-kids-and-why-you-shouldnt-eith
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