Edit: I wanted to apologize after reading some of the comments. You raise some legitimate points, I realize that there is a subtle malthusian element to this chart and some of you feel like a burden already. Furthermore, you raise a good point about corporate pollution, oil companies, and how their footprint is much greater than average plebs like us.
That’s 100% valid and I don’t disagree with you at all. My “compromise” I guess would be that continue to apply pressure and protest against large corporations, but in terms of ourselves, just pick a few things you can cut down on yourself, it does not have to be everything on this list.
For example, I really prefer having animal products in my diet, but I am willing to live in a small apartment , car-free, and not go on vacation much in my adulthood. In the same way, you guys can pick what you are comfortable with in reducing and what you do not want to compromise on.
All of us have different standards of living and we are flexible on some things, and some things we are not flexible. That is alright, just consider changing what you are comfortable with, but please do not think you are a burden. Your presence and your life is valuable to me. I don’t like to demoralize people.
Not having children is a pretty certain method of not having grandchildren though. You can compared the local/national/worldwide average reproduction odds against the certainty of not having (great)grandchildren.
Eh, even if you count it, it should half for each step removed from you, as the non-existant grandchild’s other parent will still have a child, just with someone else rather than with your child.
It’s like saying that killing someone 1000 years ago will also kill all their descendants, which is technically true. But most of the descendants will still live, just one different parent (grandparent, etc).
This graph only mentions “one fewer child” though, which implies you can still have kids. But having one fewer kid might influence your other kid/s to have even more grandchildren, so having descendants in this graph makes no real sense, since it could vary from far less climate savings per year, to infinitely more climate savings. It could fluctuate way too much for it to be actually relevant in this graph.