The question says more than the answers. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Recently, Asra Klein wrote a column attempting to answer a question, he says he's asked all the time, should today's adults have kids given the climate crisis.

Well, Klein received lots of pushback for the odd premise of the question, which seems to reveal more about the company he keeps.

After all, according to Pew Research, only a tiny fraction of childless adults today

cite climate worries as their motivation. But the most poignant part of Klein's piece is what it

assumes. That's a question only thinkable in a culture that thinks of procreation as a kind of

plaything. Think about it. Klein isn't wondering here whether adults should abstain from sex in order

to keep children from being born on this doomed planet,

just whether or not they should use birth control and have abortions. Childbearing is seen as a

technologically controlled choice, completely independent of the very act that causes it. And that's

how much technologies can change how we think about the world. That's also why Christians have to

approach all technology by first asking what humans are for.

Oh, and for that original question, yes, we should still have children.

I'm John Stone Street.