Today a twenty-something told me that she doesn't plan to have children because of climate change.

[MineralMan]

113. Climate change is a population issue.

I'm one of the "older folks." In 1965, at age 20, I decided, based on population growth numbers, not to father any children. I married women who agreed with that, and we didn't make any children.

I read "The Population Bomb." I studied global population issues. I made a decision. There are many others in my age group who made similar decisions. Not enough, however, to have forestalled one of the consequences of having too many people on this finite planet.

The warnings were there. People ignored them. Warnings about famine. Warnings about disease. Warnings about climate. Warnings about running out of resources. Warnings about sheer overcrowding of the planet. People ignored them, just as they are doing now, in vast numbers.

I did not ignore those warnings. Others I know did not ignore them, either.