We would be good parents but we will not have children—Anonymous

The children who are here on Earth now need our love and our devotion of resources more than any new ones, especially white ones in a privileged country like Australia who will guzzle resources at a grotesque rate, even if they’re brought up as eco-consciously as possible. I considered having kids, and I didn’t realise how much I had notions of a future with future generations until I really grieved the decision not to have them. It is not easy, but it is not selfish. It is out of self-lessness that we deny our family the joy of children, in order that perhaps another existing life can be saved, and grow old.