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Patricia MacCormack is an Australian scholar who lives and works in London. Currently she is Professor of Continental Philosophy in English and Media at Anglia Ruskin University.

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In terms of carbon footprint, the worst thing you can do is have a child. And it’s the one taboo that nobody wants to speak.

If the United States and other religious fundamentalist countries of any religion see themselves as God's people, all I can say is bring on the Antichrist and End of Days.

The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (2020)

Not only does having a child really increase your carbon footprint, but we are living on an earth where there are a lot of organisms — human, non-human — that are in desperate need of care. And so, for me, if people want to care for children, for animals, whatever, there are cries for care everywhere. I’m asking us to reflect on this idea that we need to reproduce.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patricia MacCormack (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.