I know this because I was a kid not too long ago, and it was no picnic then—but at least we had the ice caps.Everywhere you look, things seem to be in decline—fish stocks, food stocks, everything apart from stock stocks, which are doing very well indeed.Bad news is inescapable, and the cycle keeps getting shorter. Seems like you can’t even spend sixteen hours staring at your phone these days without having your tsunami live stream interrupted by a breaking earthquake.
No, this is not the world that I want my children to grow up in. So, for the following reasons, I have decided not to have them.When was the last time you saw a narwhal in the Hudson, or a gazelle cantering down Broadway? Mother Earth is sick, friends. And she’s way less photogenic than she used to be. The thought of having to explain what a waterfall was to my future child is just too sad. Besides, by not having children, I might just buy the glaciers a few extra years.