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Re:California Drought Update May 2022 [pdf] by AYBABTME on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:51PM (#31600968)
Nobody wants to hear it because it's a knee-jerk, throw-your-hand-in-the-air reaction. Taking this stance boils down to questions like "what's the point of life", whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, and whether you're individualistic or not. You know, trivial things that everyone agree with and no one has strong feelings about.

Hence I don't think any real solution can come close to something as fundamental a change as "just don't have kids". To a lot of people, this equates to "why do you even bother being alive?". Folks are already annoyed if you ask them to segregate plastics by types, how do you think your "don't have kids" suggestion will pass? It's not a real plausible solution to the climate problem, all it does is infuriate 50% of the people, while solving no problem and changing no one's mind.

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Re:California Drought Update May 2022 [pdf] by paulcole on Thursday June 02, 2022 @07:30PM (#31601963)
> why do you even bother being alive?

This is going to be a very real question to hundreds of millions of people within a few generations — because of climate change. Hopefully the people alive today think the answer is to create an enjoyably livable world for the people alive a few generations from today.

But I don’t blame them if they don’t. It’s fine to be selfish and not care what happens after you’re dead - it really doesn’t matter anyway. So have kids, don’t have kids. Separate plastics or don’t.

Also adoption exists.

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