I’m glad that you’re conscientious about the impact of your diet, even though you’re not 100% vegetarian these days. If everybody in the Western world ate the way that you did, we could all be a lot better off.

I suspect that you’re right when you say that we’re fucked. I anticipate that we’ll go the way of the reindeer, too, with a cataclysmic population collapse. But even if it’s inevitable, that doesn’t make it “right” to me to participate in bringing it on, and honestly – if I were the kind of person to care about having genetic offspring, I’d be even more concerned about what kind of world I was setting up for my ((great-)grand)children. But that’s just me.

And yeah; as you and Andy have indicated, people do “just want to” create babies. And given that, I just hope that they’ll be mindful of the impact of that decision, and will consider having fewer children than they might if resources were not (becoming) a critical issue. For all of us. Rather than “one is okay, but definitely stop at two,” I think that we should be saying “none is okay, but definitely stop at one”.

But yeah: it’s hard to fully grasp what one’s individual impact is in destroying the world. It’s easier if you’re a supervillain with a giant death laser: you can actually see your impact in real-time. Also – you have a cool giant death laser.