Why a Fringe Philosophy Like Antinatalism Has Become Mainstream
We have a population of about 8 billion humans, straining our ecological resources.
We are living in an age where economic injustice has made procreation prohibitive for a significant proportion of the population while living in a world where one’s children are no longer popularly considered retirement insurance for old age. In underdeveloped areas where people live in extreme poverty and destitution, children often do not survive childhood, and it makes sense in such conditions to have as many children as possible to care for themselves in old age when they can no longer perform physical labour.
In modern societies, that’s no longer the case.
What is the case today is economic disparity that makes having and raising children prohibitive.
The U.S. is highly obnoxious in how it creates barriers to procreation with its profit-focused health-exploitation system. Hospitals will freakin’ charge people to hold their newborn baby. This parent posted a bill containing a charge of $40 for “skin-to-skin” contact with their own freakin’ child.
The U.S. is a highly effed-up nation.
Compound that sociopathy with the prospect of a severe culling of the species due to our ecological mismanagement. We can expect death rates to skyrocket from heat exhaustion alone into the tens of millions per year within the decade.
Who tf wants to bring a child into a world that’s killing itself while the monsters most responsible for the nightmare of the potential extinction of our species are forcing it onto their child’s future?
Who tf would want to bring a child into this world when many of the youth today will not survive to the average lifespan of 85 years within the next few decades?
No one should be surprised that people are sensibly choosing to care enough for life to not impose horror onto the lives they bring into this world.
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If people like J.D. Vance are concerned enough about low birth rates, then we need to start doing something about the monsters that are killing our species.
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
BTW… here’s a recent development resulting from the horrific mismanagement of our environment.
Do you know what that is?
It’s a pyramid… collapsing.
A friggin’ stone structure that has stood for thousands of years is crumbling due to our disgusting disregard for our planet.
Who TF wants to bring children into a dying world if no one’s going to do anything to save it?
