A 'daft reason' not to have children

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest member of the US Congress, recently said that “young people” were asking themselves whether it was “OK to still have children”, given the threat of climate change.

At The Week, Matthew Walther said it was a strange piece of logic. “The conclusion that because ‘the lives of children are going to be very difficult’ at some unspecified point in the future, people should consider not having them is daft.” People who conclude this must already be disinclined to have children. “To live in a world where it’s half a degree warmer,” Walther wrote, “is better than never being born, surely.”