• N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    2023 is the hottest year ever in record. Everything suggests that it won’t hold that record for long. Why would I bring children to this world to suffer the hell that 2050 will be?

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      1 year ago

      If your in a developed nation with a decent military then you will be among the last to feel the pain of environmental collapse. Most of the world is what we would consider hellish right now, yet people still find a way to laugh and love. Watch these poor souls recycling electronics in Africa. Watch bald and bankrupt in bengladesh. Most people alive today live like this and it doesn’t stop them from living life. We all adapt to our conditions, its all relative to our individual experience and what we consider “normal” in our lives. Your condition potentially getting worse shouldn’t stop you from having kids, as your condition probably has a long way to go to get down to where most of the population is at currently. Whether you enjoy the ride, fight the collapse, or hail the apocalypse, someones gotta be around to keep this party going. If their born into late stage environmental collapse with nations fighting over the last scraps of arable land and drinkable water, well then that becomes their “normal” and theyll still find something to laugh about and someone to love. But at the end of the day it is your choice and you should do as you see best.

      https://youtu.be/JXDrIvShZKU?si=SJZi6VLNjzPgvVXD

      https://youtu.be/iq_76McFVLo?si=ys1zZE6mUe5LyaWT

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        Most of the world is what we would consider hellish right now, yet people still find a way to laugh and love. Watch these poor souls recycling electronics in Africa. Watch bald and bankrupt in bengladesh. Most people alive today live like this and it doesn’t stop them from living life.

        You really threw bald people in there as the miserable, wretched of the earth.

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        1 year ago

        You do it. You’re not gonna fuck a solution out. Why is it always “let the kids fix it”?

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          only if their parents care enough to make sure they are educated and smart. we don’t need more stupid people.

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            1 year ago

            The “problem” being that the more educated people are, the fewer children they have and that’s a correlation that actually holds pretty well.

            The whole “people should have more children and make sure they are educated and smart” is self-contradictory: it’s either more kids lower-education or fewer kids higher-education.

            It’s magical thinking to expect that the people capable of “making sure they’re educated and smart” will have many children.