> Your ancestors traveled over glacial passes in search of the next 8,000lb mammal to eat.

And my descendants would have to travel through deserts in search for accessible drinking water.

> Strangely insulting to think life right now is really too difficult to have a child.

You've missed the point of the argument. It's not about life right now but life in 50--100 years.

But there's lots of truth in it. We thought a long time before having one kid. It doesn't make me happy to bring a kid in a world of state-surveillance, capitalism-surveillance, worldwide resource depletion and ever growing amount (at an alarming rate) of rules and laws.

We don't have high hope and I'm raising my kid telling him and preparing him for a world that may not be as easy as my boomers parent generation had it.

We still have some hope that said and I believe some places on earth shall be better than others. So I'm raising my kid in english so that at least it should be easier to live an expat life (like I do).

And I gotta say: when the states fuck up too much, that's the ultimate resistance. The last stand: saying "screw that, I'm not making kids in this broken state". I cannot fault these people.

Historically, less kids are born during war times or other crisis times. People avoid having kids in dangerous situations. And if you have baby in Stalingrad, you are significantly more likely to die or get raped etc. Along with the baby.