HAVING A BABY: ENVIRONMENTAL VANDALISM?
By Anne O’Meara
June 1, 2021
After reading the shocking title of a recent Vogue article, one might be forgiven for wondering if there are too many people living on the face of the earth who are using up the world’s resources at an alarming rate. In this disturbing article, Is Having a Baby in 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?, author Nell Frizzell theorized that the question of depleted resources is more realistically one of consumption rather than population. Either way, my response is the same and is best summarized by blogger Emily Mangiaracina. She countered, “There is nothing more cynical, more anti-‘progressive,’ more self-denigrating, more dense, more senseless, more anti-human, more tragic.” [1]
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