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How or why people feel so entitled to insist that other people have kids is beyond me (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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[–] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

What do you think people felt like with the nazi's taking over Europe? Or the smog in LA in the 1940's? The three mile island accident? Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima? The Cold War? Or acid rain destruction? Or if you were in China, the cultural revolution. Or any of the other hundreds of major wars throughout history. Maybe we're past the tipping point now, maybe we have been past a tipping point since the Industrial Revolution started. Or maybe we're just in another chapter of shit happening.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I think you're not understanding the role humans have had on the biosphere and the rapid pace we have pumped hundreds of millions of years worth of stored carbon into the atmosphere in ~200 years.

    Increased CO2 in the atmosphere is linked to many extinction events in the geological record. This is the fastest one to happen in earth's history.

    Almost nothing will be able to adapt in the timespan we have provided with what we've done in a nanosecond in geologic timescales.

    200+ species are driven to extinction a day due to humans. This is the lowest amount it will ever be from now on.

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