My Dad is a chemical engineer who works on carbon recapture. Every newborn has the potential to be a climate scientist who fixes things. Dilemma solved.
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I thought that this was overblown until I joined my wife's new mom's group in our DC neighborhood after our first daughter was born. Dads were invited to the last meetup. We went around the room and said how we were feeling, what we were grateful for—I dislike that format in general, but I was being a good sport. Anyway, it came around to one of the dad's and he just straight up said, with his beautiful child sitting on his lap, that he had extremely mixed feelings because of the carbon footprint his child had brought into the world. It was the first time this kind of discourse was truly made real to me. I suppose I thought, before that happened, that nobody REALLY feels that way, and that it's just part of a discourse/signaling thing—let alone once their newborn child is actually sitting on their lap. I was wrong.