One good reason not to have babies | Letters

Many young couples do not want to bring children into a world devastated by the climate crisisWhile I agree with all the reasons Sonia Sodha gives for falling birth rates in some countries (“The world needs babies. So we’d better rethink what we expect from mothers”, Comment), she misses one huge and increasing reason. Younger couples are making the conscious decision not to bring children into a world that they foresee may be devastated by the climate crisis unfolding around us.Unless the world’s leaders truly commit to massive and lasting changes to how we create and use energy, young people will understandably not wish to risk condemning the next generation to lives of potential hunger, escalating natural disasters and enforced population resettlement, with the bitter conflicts these will cause.Jill WallisAston Clinton, Buckinghamshire Continue reading...