Do you talk to your friends and family and discourage them from having kids
Yes, but mainly for the suffering aspect I mentioned above; like you rightfully said yourself in other comments, the environmental point has less standing - though again, even in a communist utopia, far less consumption, decentralized production and so on, whether or not maintaining a population of billions in a sustainable way without damaging ecosystems or exhausting resources is possible is definitely not a settled matter. We don’t know.
The point about the kid suffering, to me, has more standing though. As for your question, admittedly that’s about the extent of it, though.
Here’s the thing, whether those people close to you have kids or not, people will continue to have kids. Unless anti-natalism is made a political end-unto itsef (a scary prospect), it won’t stop being anything more than individuals choosing not to have kids because they’re scared for the future. However, there 100% will be human births right until we go extinct, whenever that may be, so we must fight for the new generations with the life-affirming and extrmely practical aims of socialism.
I also don’t want children, but I don’t think that anyone is morally at fault for having children during hard times and even existential crisis. It’s a completely normal human urge and desire to have a family which isn’t totally selfish, it’s just some of us don’t have that but we shouldn’t make it some abstract moral position or, god forbid, a political one.
That’s one of the topics where I often disagree with people on CTH (here and on the old sub). I absolutely understand the leftist hate about antinatalism since it’s very often parroted by malthusian ghouls that want to implement eugenics or genocide, or used as a cover to deport the problem to individuals and avoid doing anything more when it comes to our environmental impact; but there are valid reasons today to not have kids even if you want them.
