There are eight billion people. Eight. Billion. The species isn't holding a telethon for more humans. We're the most numerous large mammal on the planet by orders of magnitude. Every argument that frames your personal reproduction as a demographic rescue mission collapses the moment you look at the headcount. Your child won't save the village, staff the nursing home, or rescue the pension system, because there are already eight billion candidates for those jobs. What your child will do is consume resources in the richest, highest-emitting economy on earth. If the concern is genuinely the future, the math points one way, and it's not toward more American babies.
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