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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
(www.livescience.com)
Thank goodness my second child isn’t due today.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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I’m 42 and I’ve been told this like every 5 years or so.
And have you not seen things heading in that direction? I’m 57 and I sure as hell have.
Oh yes definitely I’ve seen it slowly going from bad to worse, I guess i meant to say that I’m tired and exhausted from it. And from no one in power actually wanting to do anything about fixing it.
Fun fact! The people who control who is in power!
The people don't want change. They want their luxury, their excess. Even at the cost of the world.
Bernie Sanders has been screaming consistently about it for decades.
That's on the people to vote for people who actually care.
Green parties rarely win, and that's on us.
almost every parent is irresponsible selfish trash. there's no need to put a person through a lifetime of pain just so you can have a few years of fun playing mommy.
Wow. You know there have to be people alive to fix this climate problem, right? “Oh, we done fucked the world up, time to species suicide!”
Drink some tea, dude.
GDP growth is also very high, and our productivity is increasing with Cloud, AI, and automation. So we will have more people to deal with it in the future at least.
Millennials been saying this since we were teens but were told to shut up and sit down
It’s why I’m not having kids tbh
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Stop having kids. No, it won't prevent the climate from going to shit. Yes, it will prevent you from creating new victims.
The only thing Evil (aka. suffering, disease, war,...) needs to exist is that 'good' people continue to have children.
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I would be sad about this, but I think I've used up all my sad, and now I'm just pissed. We could prevent all of this, but its gonna have to get really really bad before we drag our leaders out into the streets over this crap. It's a sad day for our species, and barely anybody even notices.
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There's so many reasons I'm not having kids. My brother on the other hand is having kids with half the state of Idaho. I'll do what I can for my niblings but I don't have enough damage control to go around
It's half the state of Idaho, Michael. What could it be, 10 women?
And we're STILL not willing to reign in capitalism.
We doomed ourselves. My pity is reserved for all the species we're taking with us in this murder/suicide for short term profit for the avarice diseased. Those capitalists are by far most to blame, but no one that contributes to the capitalist machine, myself included, is without blame for the effectively permanent destruction of our COMMUNal habitat.
Unless you're an eco-terrorist who has been actively trying to destroy the capitalist machine, the precious few good guys as far as I'm concerned if your goal is a viable habitat for our species at all beyond the next couple decades, we've all been seeing this oncomming train heading towards us our entire lives and done nothing of note.
We can't keep living like we've been living, as gluttonous consumers with 78 kinds of plastic packaged cereal made a thousand miles away in any form AND survive as a species, and it's clear which choice we've made. We aren't willing to live closer to the land, to farm the food our community eats, to live small lives understanding we are subject to earth and not the other way around, so we gotta go so life can go on without us.
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We will have to teach that there are five seasons now: spring, summer, inferno, autumn and winter.
Naw, where I am we mostly have SMOKE
No really
Smoke is part of every depiction of hell, so 'Inferno' is still applicable.
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It's gonna be awesome when we're old and need end of life care and the younger generations are too poor to help us and too stupid to help us even if they weren't poor.
We're headed into a very, very stupid and depressing future. And it's 100% avoidable.
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