The points made here are true and important, but don't mention what is in my view the biggest *positive* reason for environmentally conscious people to have children: guiding the future.
Children tend to broadly take on the beliefs of their parents, and not having children because of the environment, even on the pessimistic scenarios, is winning the battle to lose the war; if future generations are exclusively peopled by sub-cultures that don't care about the environment, the outlook for that future is grim.
If I'm right this article does not include consumption based emissions. According to this article, including all emissions:
https://www.carbonindependent.org/23.html
"This works out as 13 tonnes CO2 equivalent per person per year for the 67 million UK inhabitants."
Also, avoiding having a child saves not just one person's emissions but the emissions of all their possible descendants.
The points made here are true and important, but don't mention what is in my view the biggest *positive* reason for environmentally conscious people to have children: guiding the future.
Children tend to broadly take on the beliefs of their parents, and not having children because of the environment, even on the pessimistic scenarios, is winning the battle to lose the war; if future generations are exclusively peopled by sub-cultures that don't care about the environment, the outlook for that future is grim.