In the face of bleak climate future, is it okay to want a baby in the present?
Will I be mature enough? Will I make enough money? What about my career?
So, should I have a baby even though the world is burning? My knee-jerk response to the question has always been defensive. I know the perception is that it’s selfish to even think about it. But, like the whales and the ozone layer, how did something somebody else broke become my problem to fix? On days when Emily Cosbey, who lives in Buffalo and has a 1-year old son, thinks about the state of the world, she “shuts down.” “I cry, uncontrollably, thinking about the future that he belongs to,” she writes. “The future that I am setting him up for, but all I can see is the ugliness.” Meg Z.
I started thinking a lot about my own parents this summer — refugees who fled poverty, violence, and discrimination to dream of something bigger and better for themselves in Canada. They had no money, no tangible vision of a future when they had my two sisters and I, and yet they built their optimism around us. People like them have had children in the face of far greater hardships and shakier futures than I could ever imagine.
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