Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric...
by toasterlovin on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:38PM
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Let your kids worry about that. I know I, personally, would rather be alive and facing catastrophe than not be alive. And history is filled with examples of people who persevered through all kinds of calamity. We're a resourceful bunch. And it'll be easier for your children to face the future together than for your child to face it alone.
In addition to worrying about the carbon footprint of another kid, I have a much bigger concern that
* We will do nothing regarding climate change (seems likely)
* The predictions for Business as Usual will have been too conservative (seems likely given that the Arctic is melting well ahead of schedule, and who knows how clathrates pan out)
* Temps rise by a good 8C or so in the next 8 decades
* My child, or their children, will die horribly in a new global Holodomor as our resource chains (webs, really) collapse and the world's civilizations implode.
Anyway, I already had one. But I have a deep, pervasive dread that I have doomed them to the above. However, I also might be wrong! Maybe it just gets a bit warmer and they can open a nice winery in Sweden and it's all fine.