Every generation has had its own set of crises that could “never be overcome”. Being a doomer is letting them win. A better future only happens if we make it happen.
Climate change is nothing like previous crises. How are we supposed to reverse physics to make better future happen?
Even if we all adopted neolithic lifestyle and stopped putting more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, the amount of harmful elements that are already in the atmosphere means temperatures will keep rising for the next couple of decades.
Tell me with a straight face this is same as WW2 or cold war.
At this point it’s already happening one way or another so either you resign yourself to the fact that the world you knew is over and do everything in your power to make something better or you cede the future to those who certainly won’t. I’m not delusional, I know things suck. The planet is irreparably damaged. Wallowing in that fact does nothing, it’s a bridge to nowhere.
We just need to like… skip a generation, then breed just enough to stay level.
I don’t think anyone means no one should have children, but man… there’s too many fucking people. And it doesn’t mean killing people, just letting people die naturally while not adding more.
Yeah funny thing is this is basically what we’re already doing. China’s one child policy and neoliberal austerity everywhere else ensured the current generation of children is smaller than ever. We’re running the experiment now, and overall we’d be fine if the countries that have negative growth rates weren’t so xenophobic and let immigrants in to replace their ageing workforce.
Twenty years ago I would have agreed, there’s too many people, but now the pendulum is swinging the other way.
Every generation has had its own set of crises that could “never be overcome”. Being a doomer is letting them win. A better future only happens if we make it happen.
Climate change is nothing like previous crises. How are we supposed to reverse physics to make better future happen?
Even if we all adopted neolithic lifestyle and stopped putting more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, the amount of harmful elements that are already in the atmosphere means temperatures will keep rising for the next couple of decades.
Tell me with a straight face this is same as WW2 or cold war.
At this point it’s already happening one way or another so either you resign yourself to the fact that the world you knew is over and do everything in your power to make something better or you cede the future to those who certainly won’t. I’m not delusional, I know things suck. The planet is irreparably damaged. Wallowing in that fact does nothing, it’s a bridge to nowhere.
Whatever. I’m still not going to have kids. The future is fucked and I don’t want to inflict it upon them.
And having kids is the best way to not get a better future.
I used to think this. Then I remembered everyone will get old and no one will be around to run the economy.
But … our current economic system is a big part of how things got so bad. Being able to fuck it up is kinda a motivator for not having kids-
We just need to like… skip a generation, then breed just enough to stay level.
I don’t think anyone means no one should have children, but man… there’s too many fucking people. And it doesn’t mean killing people, just letting people die naturally while not adding more.
Yeah funny thing is this is basically what we’re already doing. China’s one child policy and neoliberal austerity everywhere else ensured the current generation of children is smaller than ever. We’re running the experiment now, and overall we’d be fine if the countries that have negative growth rates weren’t so xenophobic and let immigrants in to replace their ageing workforce.
Twenty years ago I would have agreed, there’s too many people, but now the pendulum is swinging the other way.