Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so you don't have children. Reading about your choices and views, and assuming that they would be exposed to those, I am extremely grateful that you don't have children...

@oberoniaomnia 

You do realize that if everyone stopped having kids today, humanity would be wiped out in approximately 80-90 years, or however long it takes all humans alive today to die off.

Therefore, if humanity is to survive, having kids is a necessity. But you call procreation an "elective", therefore what you’re really saying is that humanity has no business existing and should disappear.

It’s amusing to read some of the responses. Great entertainment!

@devinplombier Certainly. You also realize if we continue in the usual manner, earth will be uninhabitable. Alternatively, nature will reduced the human population with diseases [COVID anyone?], accumulation of toxins [microplastics, Pacific Garbage Patch], natural disasters [very much on the rise], water shortages [locally an issue], food shortages [currently being discussed in context of Straits of Hormuz]. 
There is a difference between steering and outlawing. Look at tobacco. It's not illegal, but discouraged in so many different ways that usage goes down. I would welcome a time when having kids is as stigmatized and discouraged as smoking. 
I find it morally better for humans to become rational and reduce population on our terms rather than having that externally imposed. But that's just me.

 having kids is as stigmatized and discouraged as smoking

OK, now you are simply trolling. You can't say something this outrageous seriously.  This statement is not utopian, it's the wildest sci-fi batsh%t totalitarian n@zi stuff