My son is now 26 and I wonder if the environment will make it to the end of his life. I hope it does. And I hope, that lacking any substantive change in how humans behave, that he and his GF opt out of kids, because I'm certain they would live to see the world fall apart (probably not end in a literal sense, but it's going to get ugly).

I'm optimistic. I work in agriculture and so see all the advances coming - right now there is more than enough food to go around despite bad weather, and yields are still going up fast. In the mean time world population growth is slowing down as third world countries advance to the point where more babies is bad for the family.

yea its def race against time. It is slowing down in places like india but africa is just getting started.

The end of the world has always been right around the corner. One of many things that having children represents is hope for the future. Maybe you don't find that compelling or realistic, but I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel on humanity.

"Fascism," "democracy," what's the difference? There's always an elite class pulling the strings. The world has always been a mess. The only thing that is dying is our illusions.

Edit: for those that downvote me, go tell the millions living in violent poverty how magical democracy is. There will always be a show. What matters is who's putting on the show.

If that was the case, then why aren't our schools teaching white supremacy and nationalism? Isn't the opposite the case?

Also, what's wrong with nationalism? Isn't it better to have nations who are interested in the well being of their people as opposed to a world controlled by globalist corporations?

It seems to me like the people have been conditioned against nationalism and towards globalism which favors corporate control.