Although Leonardo DiCaprio may be one of America’s foremost ladies’ men, his views on having children are a bit more mixed. In 2016, he revealed that he was not in any rush to become a father, though he’s open to the possibility. “If it happens, it happens,” he told Rolling Stone, via Hello!. “I’d prefer not to get into specifics about it, just because then it becomes something that is misquoted.”
Though he did not say so directly, DiCaprio, who’s also well-known as an environmental activist, hinted that his views on climate change and the environment may prevent him from wanting to have children. “Do you mean do I want to bring children into a world like this?” the actor quipped to Rolling Stone at the time. If so, this would put him among the growing trend of people who are deciding to forego having children in light of the growing climate crisis, partly because many believe it is unethical to introduce a person into such a different and potentially dangerous landscape, and partly because having children massively increases one’s carbon footprint.
U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the household names promoting this idea, openly pondering in a 2019 Instagram livestream, “Basically, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question: is it okay to still have children?”
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