Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern Hemisphere

Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by rorykoehler on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:59AM (#24361783)

Can we stop with the don't have children advice. It's one step away from telling people to go kill themselves. People can choose to have children or not but it is not constructive to tell people to have or not have children. For most of us not having children will render saving the planet (as in making it habitable for humans) a meaningless exercise.

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Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by devdas on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:23AM (#24362259)

The impact of having a child in the first world is huge. You could live as close to a third world lower middle class lifestyle as possible and have one child.

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Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by DontTellAnyone on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:36AM (#24362959)

The impact of immigration is even bigger. All first world nations have declining birth rates now and would reduce their population numbers substantially without immigration. Yet in many countries reach record population numbers on a yearly basis - because millions of immigrants keep pouring in.

I'd rather stop immigration before further driving our birth rates down and leaving world of the future to the low intelligence populations that are currently driving population growth on a global scale. The only ones following this "don't have children because of the climate" advice are those intelligent enough to do so. The whole thing is completely dysgenic in its nature.

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Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by rorykoehler on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:41AM (#24363430)

I think you word you’re looking for is educated. Small but significant difference.

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Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by antisthenes on Thursday September 03, 2020 @12:29PM (#24365707)

It's about having less children, not "not having children".

The world isn't black and white.

Having more children than we need is why we're in this whole mess to begin with. If people stuck to having 2-3 kids instead of 4-5, we'd have a much longer runway to transition to renewables, including building up storage capacity.

Instead, we're scrambling and calling transitioning from coal to natural gas a success, when it's just changing 1 fossil fuel for another, while the world is burning (quite literally, in some parts) around us.

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Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by bigiain on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:54AM (#24362411)

I do not have any children, by choice - out of selfishness more than environmental concerns if I’m being brutally honest with myself.

But I care deeply about the mess we’re leaving for my nieces and nephew, and for many of my friend’s children.

And, quite frankly, saying “not fucking up a planet is a meaningless exercise” if it doesn’t happen to allow _your_ precious DNA to survive? That’s not the sort of awful person I’d admit to being in public...

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Re:Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern ... by antepodius on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:29AM (#24362914)

That's fine. They who breed will inherit the earth!

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