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Having a child is the grandest act of climate destruction

There’s no way I could bring children into this world

16 October 2021

9:00 AM

16 October 2021

9:00 AM

About four years ago, my wife and I, who are both in our thirties, briefly thought we were having a baby. For the next few nights my dreams were of nuclear flashes lighting up the sky, of the earth cracking open and of waves lapping at the front door.

Humans are swiftly making the planet uninhabitable.

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