Some people choose not to have children because they fear that it will exacerbate climate change and increase the harm that humanity is doing to the planet.

By October 2021, the world’s population reached 7.9 billion people. According to UN estimates, there will be about 9.7 billion people by 2050 and 11 billion by 2100. At the same time, according to the World Bank, the average carbon dioxide emission from each person in the world was 4.5 tons in 2018. According to the British charity organization, called Population Matters, the total carbon emissions and deforestation, as well as the magnitude of other environmental impacts, will increase significantly as the population grows.

Climate change gives people yet another reason to refuse to have kids. People are worried about extreme weather conditions that their kids will probably have to face. More and more people don’t want to bring a child into a world that will be destroyed by climate change in the nearest decades.

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