Want to Help Fight Climate Change? Have More Children
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Look at it this way: If progress on climate change is at all possible, someone will need to contribute to it. Aren't your potential children among the most likely people to do that? If nothing else, they have an above-average chance of voting for political remedies for the problem, given how you will raise and instruct them.

Alternatively, you might think that climate change is such a huge and terrible problem that even marginal improvements are unlikely, never mind a comprehensive solution. If that's the case, then you should just do what you want right now and forget about future considerations altogether — whatever you decide, it won't matter.

Then there is the matter of historical perspective. Parents had children in medieval times, or for that matter before antibiotics and vaccines. Of all the children who have ever existed, the vast majority have been born into pretty tough circumstances. It is part of the human condition — even as we struggle to improve our lot. Let's not give up by ceasing to have children.

Finally, leave aside the implausibility of these arguments and consider their assumptions. What you'll find is zero-sum thinking, negative value judgments about large families, and an attempt to use guilt and shame to steer social and environmental policy. I suspect that is why these arguments are finding some traction, not because they are the result of any careful cost-benefit calculations.

Israeli occupation forces committed 600 violations against Palestinian journalists between October 2018 and October 2019, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) announced on Friday. According to the report, which covered the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, the most dangerous violations were the direct shootings of journalists.

The report stated that 60 journalists were shot and suffered serious wounds; some of them still suffering at the time of the report. It also disclosed that 43 journalists had sustained light wounds as they were hit by sound grenades directly thrown at them by the Israeli occupation forces.

"More than 170 journalists were beaten, detained or banned from coverage," the PJS' Freedom Committee revealed. It also exposed that more than 180 violations were committed by Facebook in coordination with the Israeli occupation authorities.

During the period covered by the report, Israel detained 10 journalists, raising the number of journalists inside Israeli jails to 18.

The violations, according to the PJS, included raids of homes, offices, fines and bans of movement inside the country and traveling abroad.

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