Thread by @studentactivism

I know several people in their twenties and thirties who have decided not to have kids because the future looks so bleak. It breaks my heart.

https://twitter.com/kristin_thorp/status/1438242057445773313

Since some folks are misinterpreting, I want to be clear: The people I'm talking about aren't making an ethical decision to reduce their impact on the planet through population reduction. They're foregoing having kids because they're scared of what the world is turning into.

We could debate whether population restriction is going to solve the planet's problems (it mostly wouldn't, and would cause all sorts of other trouble, is my answer), but this isn't that.

This is smart, caring young people—people who would, in my estimation, make amazing parents—looking at the world around them with profound despair for the future.

And to all the people in my mentions saying this is them: I feel for you so strongly, and I honestly have no idea what I would have done if I were in your place.