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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel very strongly that people should be doing more about climate change. Drastically more. Hypothetically, if I have two kids, and they each have two kids, I’d get four grandkids. If I have three kids, and then they have three kids, we’d end up with nine. The Earth just can’t take that. I don’t want to be hypocritical and tell other people to have two when I have three or four, so we stopped at two. I used to want four, but we’re at an age where it’s more risky, so that helps me stay content. [/quote]

I feel pretty strongly about climate change as well (drive an EV, have solar panels, walk/metro as much as possible, buy local food, try to avoid single use plastics), but I am pregnant with my third. I’m an only child. If my parents had 2 kids who each had 2, they’d end up with 4 grandkids. Now they’ll have 3. DH is 1 of 2, so I guess he’s giving his parents and “extra” that balances out lol. But the point is things don’t work out as easy as your math suggests. Not everyone has kids anyway, so there’s a good chance 1 (or more) of our kids may not even have kids someday.

If we really want to end overpopulation, we need to be encouraging women’s education and freedom of reproductive choices. When women have control over their fertility, they can become economically independent and (often) have fewer children (which is why the birth rate in our country has been decreasing since birth control was invented and female college rates have gone up). But I don’t think that means we need to tell families who purposefully want (and can afford to care for) more children that it’s horrible for the environment. [/quote]

+1. I agree and have 3 kids. Almost never drive, have solar panels, Pepco bill is $100 average, we buy and waste very little (save the environment and $$$), etc. we do fly a couple of times a year, but that’s about it. We are not American and are not used to how much waste there is in this country. I see plenty of 3 people families wasting (spending, consuming) twice as much as we do… behavior should change IF we want to save the planet. As per over population, we should not be looking at the US nor Europe (where I am from)[/quote]

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