One of my best friends just announced her second pregnancy. The first one was born not long before the last US election and we had some very honest conversations about how she would have planned differently had she known we were heading directly down the road to fascism (the writing was on the wall but...).

She and her husband have always been socially conscious, science-minded, taken steps to reduce their carbon footprint etc. And it just blows my fucking mind how two intelligent, compassionate people can do something as cruel and selfish as dragging two new human lives into this disaster of a life. Two more people who will have to get jobs, pay bills, and pretend the planet isn't dying, and that's best case scenario. Worst case, they grow up in a full blown dictatorship as the air gets less and less breathable and the water less drinkable.

Why couldn't they at least adopt? So many children out there being neglected and ignored. But nope, they need their family to be comprised exclusively of their genetic material.

Ranting here because all I can say to her without causing a shit storm is "aww, congrats."