Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Change of Degree

What to do about climate change?
A question the young ask the old.
The answer is to rearrange
Life getting older, young are told.
Having one less child is a way
To make lesser carbon imprint,
But not a p.c. thing to say,
Even though the most consequent
If each old had had one less child.
A lot of the young would not be,
But statistics would be compiled
For climate change positively.

When the young are old and asked why
The climate's bad - honest reply?