No one knows the "effect" of having a child because no one knows what that child is going to do in their life.
It's satanic to think that you can summarize a human being in terms of tons of carbon emitted in their lifetime. If human lives have intrinsic value then you can't do that. If you don't think that human lives have intrinsic value then who cares if the world ends?
No one suggested that. We know that each person added will contribute emissions (on average). There's nothing emotional about that unfortunate fact, and that should contribute to our decisions to have 0-5 or more kids...
leftyted|6 years ago
It's satanic to think that you can summarize a human being in terms of tons of carbon emitted in their lifetime. If human lives have intrinsic value then you can't do that. If you don't think that human lives have intrinsic value then who cares if the world ends?
unknown|6 years ago
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etrautmann|6 years ago