General Discussion

and the idea's been around for at least a couple of millennia.

"Embodied" (which airs on NPR stations) has been advertising this week's episode. The ad features a woman who would seem to have considered having a child, but given the possibility (probability?) of an "extinction level" climate crisis, would it really be right to bring a child into the world just so it would face misery, hardship, and possibly a painful life and death?

I knew women who said things like that back in the '80s--what with Reagan, the likelihood of nuclear war, the Malthusian famines that would kill off at least a billion people, etc., etc., etc. And it wasn't just that. Knew people that had exited a church that was sort of implying that Jesus' return must be nigh. And with that would be all the persecution, 4 horsemen, etc., etc. So it would be, let's all join in together, would it really be right to bring a child into the world just so it would face misery, hardship, and possibly a painful life and death?