Illustration to put in perspective a timeless question:
Are there too many of us on Earth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faced with the climatic, geopolitical, economic, and societal challenges humanity must confront, what is our share of responsibility when we choose to bring into the world a new generation that will have to accept and face these issues?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is the desire to have children an act of selfishness? Or is it, at least in part, guided by nature itself \u2014 those same natural forces that gave birth to life? Could there be a physical or chemical impulse meant to counterbalance the devastation of pollution, war, racism, and famine through the emergence of a generation that is more sensitive, empathetic, and conscious \u2014 capable of slowing down, or even reversing, the damage we have caused?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or will this generation seek to escape the responsibilities we have left behind \u2014 like the dream of fleeing to other planets once Earth becomes uninhabitable? Will it feel crushed by the selfishness of its parents, despite the love they gave it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n