If I was just starting out and weighing whether or not to have children, I would give serious consideration to remaining a childless cat person—in part to spite JD Vance, but mostly because I’d have my doubts about the kind of world any child of mine would be inheriting.
Previous generations have carried on in a largely clueless manner when it comes to environmental and ecological considerations, which has contributed to the maelstrom of meteorological excesses that are no longer abnormal. And the way things are looking on multiple fronts in the battle of ideologies and religions, it’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose.
The U.S. and certain other NATO nations are making no bones about supplying Ukraine with weaponry. Ukraine is taking the battle into Russia, which besides being an insanely ballsy move, one would think is also not sitting well with Putin and his kettle of war hawks.
Israel attacked targets in Lebanon because they saw that Hezbollah might be preparing to attack. Sudan is a collapsing hell hole, China is engaging in saber rattling and bolstering its claims of support for Russia, with the help of North Korea in a supporting role. Taiwan must be wondering when the other shoe is going to drop. And who knows what Iran is up to?
And who knows what else will be flaring up?
Holy shit. Why would anyone want to bring children into all of this?
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