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almost every parent is irresponsible selfish trash. there's no need to put a person through a lifetime of pain just so you can have a few years of fun playing mommy.
Thank goodness my second child isn’t due today.
I’m 42 and I’ve been told this like every 5 years or so.
And have you not seen things heading in that direction? I’m 57 and I sure as hell have.
Oh yes definitely I’ve seen it slowly going from bad to worse, I guess i meant to say that I’m tired and exhausted from it. And from no one in power actually wanting to do anything about fixing it.
Fun fact! The people who control who is in power!
The people don't want change. They want their luxury, their excess. Even at the cost of the world.
That's on the people to vote for people who actually care.
Green parties rarely win, and that's on us.
Bernie Sanders has been screaming consistently about it for decades.
This is actually optimistic. They think kids are going to grow up.
They think people these days can afford to have kids.
It's gonna be awesome when we're old and need end of life care and the younger generations are too poor to help us and too stupid to help us even if they weren't poor.
We're headed into a very, very stupid and depressing future. And it's 100% avoidable.
*was avoidable, by taking steps 25-40 years ago. Boomers took us right over the edge of any cliff they could find, again and again.
So uh what do I call what we are living in right now?
The calm before the storm.
What we've got now is peanuts compared to what kind of future we're looking towards.
yay.
And we're STILL not willing to reign in capitalism.
We doomed ourselves. My pity is reserved for all the species we're taking with us in this murder/suicide for short term profit for the avarice diseased. Those capitalists are by far most to blame, but no one that contributes to the capitalist machine, myself included, is without blame for the effectively permanent destruction of our COMMUNal habitat.
Unless you're an eco-terrorist who has been actively trying to destroy the capitalist machine, the precious few good guys as far as I'm concerned if your goal is a viable habitat for our species at all beyond the next couple decades, we've all been seeing this oncomming train heading towards us our entire lives and done nothing of note.
We can't keep living like we've been living, as gluttonous consumers with 78 kinds of plastic packaged cereal made a thousand miles away in any form AND survive as a species, and it's clear which choice we've made. We aren't willing to live closer to the land, to farm the food our community eats, to live small lives understanding we are subject to earth and not the other way around, so we gotta go so life can go on without us.
Humans are pretty resilient. I don't think we're going to go extinct, unless we do the nuclear winter thing, which I personally believe is inevitable on a long enough timeline. Short of that, we'll see mass death and an extreme decline in quality of life, but we'll probably, unfortunately, continue on as a species. Either way, we'll end up destroying this planet eventually. We simply cannot exist in symbiosis with nature.
I'm not really on the fence about the bright vs dark future thing anymore, as you can see by my name. It's pretty much guaranteed we've chosen the dark future option.
Blah blah ecofascist doomerism. We can live harmonically with nature and have for most of our history. Our current consumerist society isn't compatible with sustainable and responsible practices but that isn't a forgone conclusion or intrinsic to human behavior. That's not to say that we aren't on a bad path, we absolutely are and a great many organisms are going extinct because of us, but ascribing a moral value to our very existence is the wrong move.
Not true. Humans always reproduced to the absolute limit (set by their agricultural technology and the bodies of women). The reason why this didn't wreck the environment is because that limited population was too small to turn 50% of land into farmland, they didn't know how to burn large amounts of coal and they didn't have the technology to produce harmful chemicals.
But i agree that humanity (or any other species) has no value. Saying humanity has value is like saying the white race has value. It's pure aestethics, it's not worth it to make anyone suffer for that.
Humans always reproduced to the absolute limit
My understanding is that this is not true. The big factor seems to be infant mortality, as that drops so does the average number of children per breeding pair.
Shit, just what I want to read while my girlfriend is in labour.
Just tell her to try and hold things in until tomorrow, that should help.
Congrats!
Millennials been saying this since we were teens but were told to shut up and sit down
It’s why I’m not having kids tbh
In an analysis of human exposure to climate change extremes — such as heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, cyclones and crop failures — researchers found that children born in 2020 are two to seven times more likely to face one-in-10,000 year events than those who were born in 1960.
Why pick (great) grandparents as the reference point?
Wouldn't it be more practical to compare them with their parents?
Edit: the actual study does show comparative data for other cohorts (i.e. every decade since 1960). Unless the average LiveScience reader is in their 60s, they just picked a weirdly unrelatable way to describe the study.
YES WE FUCKING KNOW
Stop having kids. No, it won't prevent the climate from going to shit. Yes, it will prevent you from creating new victims.
The only thing Evil (aka. suffering, disease, war,...) needs to exist is that 'good' people continue to have children.
So, Blade Runner was a future documentary ? And then Blade Runner 2049?