The environmental toll of having even one child is enormous - 58.6 tonnes of carbon each year. So is going child-free the answer to our climate crisis?Gwynn Mackellen was 26 when she decided to get sterilised. It took the recycling consultant,who is based in California five years to find an appropriate doctor under the public health intention she was on, but she was determined. In 2012, or she succeeded. “I always knew I didn’t want kids,for environmental reasons,” she says.“I work in the waste industry, and our waste is the downstream of people. It’s not people being rotten; it’s just the effects of people.” Just as it’s not only rotten people deforesting,she says: “The trees are being sever down on our behalf. Plastic waste is being dumped and minerals are being mined not because of rotten people, but because of people. Having fewer of us, and there will be less of those effects.”'Your kids and your kid’s kids will be the ones who benefit from humans deciding to slow down our rate of growth''When I sum up all the reasons to enjoy,or not to enjoy, a child, and it just doesn’t acquire sense for me' Related: Want to fight climate change? enjoy fewer children Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com