nope

Economically speaking the more abrupt the population shrinkage the worse the few young people will have it because of the extreme imbalance of retired vs working population

Life will be harder but your kids might make it better for the others

Partly yes.
If I could choose, I would take 10 years earlier than I was actually born.
At least I could have experienced the early internet for longer.

Since the industrial revolution, fossil fuels were the only affordable energy sources that could meet the demand of industrialized countries. Until 5-10 years ago.

We're now in a situation where most people can still pretend that climate change isn't serious, and the fossil fuel lobby is stronger than ever. And yet over 90% of new electricity generation is already renewable, because it has simply become cheaper than coal and gas power in the last years.

As climate impacts worsen, the pressure to decarbonize will only get larger. The lobbies have been fighting tooth and nail against the energy transition for over 40 years, but they are rapidly loosing ground now in most countries.

It's right to be alarmed about climate change, there will be serious long-term impacts, but it seems irrational to be completely fatalistic. Just comparing the battery prices and solar panel prices and ev market with 10 years ago reveals a truly massive shift. And this is just the beginning of the energy transition.

I do, but I also acknowledge that I may be wrong, and that the parents are free to make their own choices.

I definitely would not want a child now. I believe the uncertainty of the speed of climate change and the global suffering that comes with it all would be a terrible burden for everyone.

When the mother bear in bondage at the bile farm kills her own cub and I gotta applaud that poor bitch

Yes

Yup. I smile and give lip service while thinking how I would never want to do that to a child. Im really lucky because if I did a fifth year of college to pick up a second major and did a year in a PhD program and worked in my industry that did not make enough for two or three years. This set me back just enough that by the time the kid question came up it was in the mid aughts and it was a no not now and looking around not ever. Did not take many more years to become no way, no how, not in this reality. If I had done a more lucrative major and started working right out of college there is a massive chance I might have kids who I would not have been able to help pay for college and desperately trying to make sure I did not turn into a burden on them.

Mix of sad and angry. I see these broodmares popping out kids and I think of the movie Idiocracy because all of the more thoughtful people I know limited how many kids they had while the people having litters of kids all seem to be short-sighted selfish assholes. The thoughtful folks worry about saving college funds for the kids. The selfish ones don't. They don't have any plans, they are too busy making babies -- and those kids are going to be predisposed to be the same way which will make matters worse for the handful of kids raised by thoughtful parents.

Yup.

Actually kind of jealous, because they will have AI just do healthcare on every single human, and they will have AI teachers and so on.

EDIT: Did I mention fucking UBI?

I think every time period has its up sides and down sides. I fear that human civilization will soon end thanks to climate change but I don't think it's an inevitability, a part of me still has hope things will get better. You just can't know for sure what things will be like for the next generation