I'm so glad I didn't have kids. I'm not sure how I'll survive as an old lady in the post oil, post water, post life world, but at level my kids won't have to feel guilty for leaving me at the side of the road. Or eating me.
Man I get a twinge of pain in my heart every time I read a comment like this… my partner is dead set on having kids, and I’m not so sure. If I can’t get on board, we’ll need to break up soon despite loving each other. Shit sucks man, why can’t the world just be habitable, it doesn’t seem like much to ask
If this really is your primary reason, talk to your partner about adoption or foster care. There's no guilt but you can still have all the wonderful things
The only reason I regret not having kids, I won't have anyone smaller and weaker to push down when running from cannibal raiders during the climate crisis.
Plenty of kids need adopting!
There's still time!!!
I have 3 young-and-not-so-young adult children (big gap between them) and I have found myself wanting to apologize to them so many times for bringing them into this shit show. I really didn't know it was going to get this bad. As a child of the 70's I was promised a world of ecologically and socially conscious people by now. Welp...
Also a child of the 70s, and I thought we had a lot longer before the shit show started, and that we had time to fix it, and that we would fix it. I really didn't think I'd be seeing it happen. It breaks my heart. Humanity is capable of so much better than this, but we just... haven't. And won't.
We had heaps of time.
We knew about greenhouse gases and their warming effect for about 200 years now.
Shit, even if we’d acted just. 50 years ago in the ‘70s we’d be far along.
Instead everyone at every step of the way fiddled their hands too worried to threaten the comforting status quo of their lives.
Yes this is true, but what I was meaning is that a lot of the effects of climate change are happening faster than predicted, because we've made things worse than predicted.
Man I get a twinge of pain in my heart every time I read a comment like this… my partner is dead set on having kids, and I’m not so sure. If I can’t get on board, we’ll need to break up soon despite loving each other. Shit sucks man, why can’t the world just be habitable, it doesn’t seem like much to ask
El niño worlwide drought/warmth distribution pattern:
https://assets.climatecentral.org/images/made/7_24_14_Andrea_ElNinoDJFimpacts_1050_645_s_c1_c_c.jpg
The last couple of years La Niña masked some of the extend of global warming. This year's record El Niño might become really crazy. Ocean temperature records of the last few months are already a eery sign.
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