#413: Why 'Climate Anti-natalism' Now?
There have always been good reasons to not procreate. Why is it popular now?
In her 1989 essay ‘Why Have Children?’ Elizabeth Anscombe laments that the “very title tells of the times we live in.” What follows is more elegy than argument. The question of whether human beings should have children “simply didn’t arise” in previous generations, Anscombe contends, except for those who “were wicked enough to not want them and think of…
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