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next up: why aren't millenials and zoomers having kids? probably because of avocado toast and pronoun.
Oh thank goodness, my youngest was born a year ago
mine was born yesterday, phew! imagine if they were born a day later!
Congratulations (if this isn't a joke)!!! I'd love to help make the world habitable for your child.
no I'm never having kids
unless the world somehow fixes itself and somehow guarantees it'll stay that way for more than a few seconds.
Start by going vegan and catching public transport. Thirdly, don't have kids.
Putting that third understates it, having kids is the worst thing a person can do
That is a really skewed stat. Having kids is only the worse thing a person can do, because of the average person's lifestyle (and therefore that kid's future lifestyle). How many cows are born each year (and release methane gasses into the atmosphere) just because the average person won't go without meat or milk?
If the average person didn't drive and was vegan, then the impact of having kids would be severely reduced.
EDIT: Put it this way, what do you think would be the environmental impact of a hermit dude living in the mountains who grows his own plant food? It might be an extreme example, but the point is illustrated.
You’re putting somebody else through a life they deserve better than
That's an entirely separate discussion, I'm just talking about the environmental impact of having kids. The impact of having a kid is just the impact they will have as a person.
This has been clear for at least 20 years to anybody paying attention. I feel for those who will have to suffer this fate they didn't cause nor ask for.
In the 2000s they warned us the 2020s would be like this
They also said the 2050s would be apocalyptic
The craziest part is that things have blown past the worst scenario models, and many are still asleep. Or even worse, think some magical, undiscovered technology will save everyone. The outlook is pretty grim for anyone still around during the second half of the century.
Those 2050s are going to be coming sooner than expected.
We planted trees as kids in the 80s. Didn't just plant them either. We kept going back every year to check on the trees. We made sure that 10 trees for every kid in our school made it to 5 years before we stopped replanting that tree. Over the years I must have planted at least 50-100 trees. I wish it felt like it did anything.
I did similar though we didn’t check them ourselves
The current adult generations don't comprehend that they're sacrificing the children' future (and thus, the children) in order to maintain their Business As Usual lifestyle and dreams of being rich. It's all "what about me tho?", "it's someone else's problem", "it wasn't me!" All of this is very easy to do. It's like stealing ~~candy~~ potable water from a baby.
Well, the numbers are in and it looks like capitalism will be killing us all.
It will not, but it will destroy everything it built and make capitalism impossible.
Doesn't matter, the dominionists will blame it on trans people, gays, atheists, feminists, etc., and we will have to repent our sins to stop the second flood or whatever they will call the climate collapse.
Anybody noticed what a mess this article is? Is there so much plastic in our brains already that we discuss our dystopian future in those idiotic terms?