Re:Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight agai...
by gregjor on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:02AM
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I mostly agree, my comment was facetious. I don’t agree about not having children. Birth rates below replacement cause serious long-term economic and social problems.
Climate change represents a civilization-wide threat that we can only address through intense collective action, and even then it may be too late. Since we seem incapable of collective action with anything serious at stake there’s probably nothing any of us can do individually that will matter.
Other than the political action thing (honestly think it’s pointless) and the fact that I buy too much crap online, that’s how I live my life.
I just don’t see a way where humans “beat” climate change without an incredible (and incredibly unlikely) shift in how we live our lives.