White people should have more children.

I wonder how many people actually plan to have kids or if the kids are created and the parents make plans afterward. Even with as much knowledge as we have about birth control, i believe most kids are unplanned when they are concieved. Just recently, I had a niece whose baby was concieved when birth control failed, and i couple who was a bit older than us who claimed they were using different forms of birth control when each of their 3 kids were conceived.

To answer your question more directly, no, I don't bslieve having a child is inethical. Having a half dozen, or more like the reality TV the Dugger family, is but this is another story.

Yeah, right now I would say it’s unethical to create consciousness. Let alone the environmental stuff.

I do not think the question of whether or not it is ethical to have children belongs in the context of climate change specifically. Yes, the world will be damaged with overpopulation. On the other hand, I suspect we will develop strategies to deal with the consequences of overpopulation, including climate change. When we run out of strategies we will all die, but we will all eventually die in any case.

I had this discussion with my last girlfriend who is deeply prone to climate anxiety and even though she wants children. She was Worried for exactly the same reasons above, which I decided was BS on every level.

First off, the choice to have kids is as you state a personal, and I don't have anything to add you didn't say.

Second, fighting climate change is going to be much less effective if we have fewer people to deal with it. Massive amounts of damage have already been done and we aren't going to fix it by limiting our numbers. At this point, lowering consumption rates by having less children will no longer be effective because by the time it takes effect it will be to late.

Third, climate change is first and foremost an ecological disaster. Humans and most of the plants and animals we have a symbiotic relations with will live through it because we are creative and adaptable. The problem is evolution by natural selection is to slow to keep up with human development. By not having children, you don't change anything.

Contrary to popular belief, this is the worst time in human history except all the other times. And it's getting much better. A smaller percentage of people are living in poverty and more are obese than ever before. We have more outlets for non-vital activities and more time for leisure than ever before. We can expect that our children will only have more than we did, especially if automation makes work unnecessary.

Last, a purely philosophical argument. If no one had kids, climate stabilizes and things stay the same or revert to pre-industrial conditions with fewer people. If everyone has kids, there are two posibilities. Either we take full control of our planet and fix the climate by making it more robust, or everything gets ugly and the 6th mass extinction is finalized and our children's lives are slightly worse than ours. So it's a bad thing, that hurts no one because of they were never born they can't suffer.

Having children isn't a matter of ethics at all... It's natural....

Yes it is ethical.
Climate change is inevitable at this point.
There is nothing a single person can do to change this.
At this point science is our only salvation. Hopefully they discover a cure.

Are you asking a question, or expecting we read an opinion piece? I can never tell. Both parsing your opinion ..and the opinions you appear to be pushing causes me to ..move on. So I will ~

If someone wants to be socially responsible there is the option of having just one or two children. I’m not personally convinced about climate change, but overpopulation is definitely a threat.

For some unknown reason I love children and had a deep desire to reproduce. As a result I have four—more than my share I know, but you have to consider that I never wanted to be socially responsible in the first place.

IMO logically no one should feel a sense of emptiness because of not having had children. I know that we are not logical however, but remember that there are thousands of possible avenues that we could have taken. For example, I wish I had learned music and languages as a child. I didn’t and I’m not going to now—maybe in another life.

There are certainly plenty of people in the world, so all we need do is concentrate on the miracle of each moment and live in peace and joy.

Empowering woman reduced birth rates

I don’t think it is ethical or a unethical for the reasons you describe.

I do however feel that it is irresponsible if you can’t support them.

I have always wondered how many people want babies with no thought that they are their charges for yours, or their, lifespans.

PS I love your children rant in parentheses!

Adding to the earth’s population is a crime against humanity.

"You need to have children to get your intelligence into the gene pool," people said in my 20s and 30s.

With a 146 IQ, I scoffed at this idea. What a lousy reason to have children!

Women are not breeding animals.

I never thought of that honestly, I just go with the flow. My wife wanted children so we had children