Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

by Mark O'Connell

to those places where the shadows of the future fall most darkly across the present.

But both of us had been radicalized by parenthood. Having children had brought into horribly lurid focus the predatory face of contemporary capitalism.

Given the world, given the situation, the question that remains is whether having children is a statement of hope, an insistence on the beauty and meaningfulness and basic worth of being here, or an act of human sacrifice.