u/Numerous-Macaroon224

We rely more on content removal now instead of banishing people. Unless absolutely necessary. u/stickler-bot does a great job.

Are you one of the unbanned?

This past week in the UK has been one of the hottest on record. We've seen temperatures reach 36°C (97°F), something that would have seemed almost unimaginable not that long ago. While recent summers have become increasingly hot and dry, this heatwave has drawn inevitable comparisons with the famous summer of 1976.

While I would argue that procreation is unethical even without a climate crisis, advocating for more births while the planet is boiling seems unconscionable.

More births = more demand for housing, food, energy & infrastructure = higher emissions & more environmental degradation (under current systems) = an even hotter planet

https://www.nbc.ca/personal/advice/budget/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child.html

If antinatalism objects to creating beings into vulnerability for purposes that are not theirs, farmed animals seem like the most literal case: birth as supply.

They are bred into ownership, production, and planned death. Does antinatalism have a principled reason to exclude them?

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Here is a glimpse into calf housing on a Canadian farm in 2021. Credit: Animal Justice.

https://nume.ca/blog/risk-is-not-authority

https://nume.ca/blog/no-one-is-infrastructure