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‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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Oh ok I guess we should stop trying and lose all hope then
Yes if your solution is to throw literal children at the problem you should quit while you're ahead.
If the problem remains, you still haven't thrown enough children at it.*
*) As a parent of wonderful kids /s of course.
Lmao...
Your two ideas are...
?
No my ideas are that I'll live my life and be the best person I can.
It was a joke when I said his kid could fix it. That guy's obviously an idiot and his kids would be too
How do you people not know sarcasm? So I need to dumb it down for you with the /s like back in the day on Reddit? I thought we moved past that
Yes, it's obvious that you were joking about the other commenter's kid fixing the problem.
The issue is that it embodies the sentiment that it's "not our problem" and it's for the future generation to figure out...and then when that was called out, the first alternative you brought up was defeatism, as if that's the only alternative to someone in the future fixing the problem, lol
The defeatism was obviously sarcasm too though. So stop making all these assumptions about me.
I obviously want the issues fixed and have hope that they will be since I said that I have my own children. I do my fair share as well.
Also you talk about "defeatism" and that's all I see in this thread. People give up on the chance to have kids not because they don't want them but because some rich assholes have started to destroy the environment, things cost too much, the pay isn't right, etc... that's defeatism. The rich assholes are still having plenty of kids and they will be the ones to inherit the world.