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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago

Thank you MAGATs for destroying our country and the world.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 2 days ago

This would have happened with or without them. They introduced other problems, but we were already headed to climate collapse before this year.

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[-] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] r_deckard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

So, Blade Runner was a future documentary ? And then Blade Runner 2049?

[-] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Lol, not mine. Good fucking luck to you chumps living below the arctic circle though!

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

No your kids will get anthrax and all the viruses that are now stuck in the permafrost and will revive once they are thawed.

[-] Lonewanderer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Damn you, Scott!

[-] PbNews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Such is life

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At least they won’t have to worry about not being able to afford a house…

But it would be super cool if our generation could pre-pay their spot in a vault

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 12 points 2 days ago

The researchers note that their study is far from complete — they didn’t model climate change’s impacts on fertility, mortality or migration. This means that the effects of climate change in sparking mass migrations and resource wars were not accounted for in their analysis, and neither were the various tipping points our warming world is edging closer toward.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago
[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 20 points 2 days ago

You’d be horrible person to have them. Selfish.

[-] markko@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry for trying to find some purpose in this crappy life in the form of nurturing and caring for another person.

I think my kids will still be able to acknowledge that being born today is still far better than being born in basically any other time during the vast majority of human existence though.

Edit: Showed your comment to my daughter and she said "I'm happy to be alive, thanks very much"

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 13 points 2 days ago

Sorry for trying to find some purpose in this crappy life in the form of nurturing and caring for another person.

I find purpose in helping those who already exist, in the service of preventing suffering.

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[-] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Your kids needs to suffer for you idiotic so called purpose. Get a hobby next time, go volunteer instead of dragging other souls down with you

[-] markko@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Point me to a time in the past when there was no suffering please.

[-] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Around 4.5 billion years ago, at least on earth. The existence of suffering and its universality are good reasons for you to perpetuate it?

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[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You aren't selfish for having kids and doing your best to nurture them. We all share collective responsibility to take action for the issues our species face.

Some people think they can absolve themselves of responsibility and simply vote all the problems away, but the people they are voting in barely have the energy to acknowledge or even address the issues, let alone work towards actual solutions.

[-] markko@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I don't think that people having kids are selfish either. It's just one of those things you see so often regarding the issue of climate change. The people espousing that view are simply using it as an easy out to absolve themselves of any responsibility in my opinion.

Educating and preparing younger generations to address the issues they will face is unfortunately the most likely way to resolve such issues, and I've chosen to take that challenge upon myself despite how difficult and costly it is to raise children now compared to when my parents had me.

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

These people just have no hope. They have given up on humanity. They are preparing themselves for the worst.

We can choose differently. We can look to what is in our power to mitigate suffering. We can raise awareness and take direct action.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days ago

Well, you say that now but the water wars have already started, and your kids won’t qualify to emigrate. You should educate them of survival skills and firearms.

[-] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We can mitigate the looming water crisis by spreading awareness, not by encouraging people to choose or equip themselves for violence. Do your part.

Regulation of industrial/animal agriculture water usage, restoration of our environments so they are able to retain water, respecting aquifer replenishment rates, exploring water capture technologies, desalination, and water pipelines are all things that are in our power. We can also move some agriculture indoors into vertical farms and use wastewater recirculation.

If we are faced with people literally dying of thirst and not being able to grow food, or having to deal with the byproducts of desalination - the latter is always preferable.

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[-] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Selfish is having kids to fill narcissistic tendentcies and then bitching and moaning about how other people are unwilling to raise them for you.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 9 points 2 days ago

I addition, yes.

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