38-year-old Wes Siler decided to do something different to fight climate change by undergoing surgery for his testicles.
He revealed in OutsideOnline that when he got engaged to his fiancée in 2018, he “started planning for the future. It wasn’t just my dog Wiley and me against the world anymore. All of a sudden, I started thinking ten to 20 or more years ahead.”
Siler mentioned the Woolsey Fire that wiped out areas of Malibu in 2018, the wildfire that destroyed Paradise, California, and the flooding of the Mississippi River that lasted for half a year.
“And, of course, the whole Donald Trump thing has been going on,” he added.
“Is this a world we want to bring kids into? Is this a world it’s responsible to bring kids into?” Siler asked. He also said that he and his partner “started talking about something we could do—for ourselves and to make a meaningful impact on the bigger problem. We could just forego the whole kid thing altogether.”
He went on and compared the carbon emissions he would save by giving up his 15 mpg truck (2.4 tons of carbon emissions per year) to what he’d save the earth by avoiding having kids: 58 tons annually per child.
“Any other action we could take, even all the actions we could ever possibly add up together, pale in comparison,” he expressed.
“That’s because there are simply too many humans on this planet …Two people deciding to make fewer humans eliminates the entire cycle of consumption that would fuel that kid’s life.”
He added: “It might not be enough to save the polar bear, and it might not prevent the next Camp Fire, but this is the absolute biggest difference we can make. We need fewer humans, and getting there voluntarily will be an awful lot less painful than doing it with war, famine, and natural disaster.”
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