My parents chose to try for kids during a time where global nuclear warfare was almost seen as a certainty.
There will always at all points in time be some doom scenario to worry about.
I mean, climate change is certainly happening. But i’d rather try and make a positive impact on things instead of feeling defeated. I’d rather go down fighting, with or without having kids.
Well, your parents were very horny. Thing is, the possibility of a nuclear war is now the same, if not even higher. And now we know that we fucked up our climate beyond repair. We know that our kids will live in a dystopian wasteland.
Unpopular opinion, but we don’t know that…
We do depending on the timescale. Sure the planet can naturally sequester carbon again just like before but that is over thousands of years. For people alive right now it is beyond repair because we will all be dead by the time carbon is sequestered faster than it is added.
We know that the planet is warming, we’re setting records right now for it and we know why the planet is warming because we can measure the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. The GHGs added to the atmosphere over my life so far will never be canceled out through the rest of my lifetime because the rate that we’re adding them to the atmosphere.
We can take steps to lessen the impact and make it easier to overcome in the future but we’ve been doing almost everything in our power as a species to create this problem and we’re casually toying with maybe doing something better but not reversing this.
We’re looking at breaching the 1.5 degree limit here in the next few years and that is the start of permanent damage to certain ecosystems.
Fuck this shit. STOP the cycle.
Let the children of the mega rich inherit the toxic land. May they all suffocate.
Do you not know how often dumb people reproduce?
Go watch Idiocracy. It’s not inaccurate.
Having kids is great. Don’t believe all the horror stories.
There’s nothing i can do personally? Thats literally the problem.
People supporting businesses that ruin the environment is the problem. Sure its not our responsibility, the government needs to make changes but until then stop eating animal products, stop flying, driving car etc.
Vote with your wallet, thats the only thing they listen to.
Nope.
Like, I appreciate your energy, but no…
Go run for office yourself, or find someone else who has money and charisma. This is the only hope.
Adopt
Yeah, my SO and I have talked about adopting. We’d feel better about not bringing someone into this and still offering them some help in a difficult situation they’re in.
Kids do have impact, they were the ones protesting the loudest, they are the ones convincing their parents to try eating vegetarian and to help them out to make a better world. They are a big counterweight to the boomers and doomers of this world, if we want to save the planet, we need more, not less. We’ll figure it out, for them.
The prospect of making kids in this planet is surreal to me. I will not condemn my kids to life I’ve had. It will be better anywhere they are now, even if they don’t exist. I would also like to not exist, but that’s whole other matter.
If nobody had kids and the human race died out, earth could repair itself. The only reason earth is so fucked is because of the humans.
You not having kids is literally the best thing you could possibly do for the planet
Sad but true. But since the “not so good” people will keep having kids it’s necessary to counteract ;)
Those kids will have to be exposed to the world eventually (… r-right?). Converting them to help spread love based on empathy and morals rather than rhetoric seems like the fastest route in my head. Fight fascist propaganda with our own~
However, idk how to reach them lol. Memes n pray? XD
Embrace nihilism.
Absurdism is healthier. Nihilist are no fun to party with.
Get a vasectomy, it will calm your worries about accidents. If you can’t give a child a life of safety and security where they won’t suffer the consequences of a world fucked up by corporations and the rich for greed then just don’t do it.
Yeah lets do all of this instead of organizing.
Or tubes tied if you’re female
Since our planet is broken beyond repair, how about we sell it on ebay as “slightly used”
Hey no lowballers I know what I got.
