I’m going to be a dad in a few weeks. 🥲 (Feel free to dunk on me with the inevitable 'why?'s, and ‘did you live under a rock?’ I can’t feel any worse anymore anyway 🤗)
Mine is 7 months old now. I felt the same. Just wait, you’ll likely feel that it was the best thing you ever did. Your kid may be the one to drive some positive change. Just do the best you can and give yourself some grace.
Dooming is like porn to these people man. They don’t care about the realities at all, and only are interested in this article because it helps them feel bad.
I’m going to be a dad in a few weeks. 🥲 (Feel free to dunk on me with the inevitable 'why?'s, and ‘did you live under a rock?’ I can’t feel any worse anymore anyway 🤗)
I chose not to have kids. You can have my carbon offset.
Individual guilt for systemic problems plays well to the elites (ultra-wealthy). Unless you’re a billionaire. Then I want my offset back.
I also don’t have kids so have my carbon offset as well
I also don’t have kids but I’m keeping my carbon offset to my damn self.
And my axe!
I’ll take that axe if it improves my carbon offset
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Mine is 7 months old now. I felt the same. Just wait, you’ll likely feel that it was the best thing you ever did. Your kid may be the one to drive some positive change. Just do the best you can and give yourself some grace.
Yes everyone should use this logic. Your kid might be the one, have 10 to increase your odds!
Realistically, 10 probably would spread your resources too thin, if you want each to excel enough to be part of the solution.
3-5 though, that’s a good range.
Your sarcasm detector needs a tune up.
No I understood the sarcasm, and responded as the “straight foil”
It’s the style of humor of Tommy Lee Jones’s character in Men In Black.
Good luck to you and yours. I sincerely hope we’re wrong about how bad we think it’s going to get in the next 50 years.
You wrote hope but that message can go either way
Human problems have human solutions.
Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels, it just takes time for the economics to shake out.
Plenty of jobs in a clean economy as well.
Yeah, that’s the thing the scientists are saying we’re running out of though.
Change starts slowly but the effects compound
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Some other effects are compounding faster…
Fossil fuel use isn’t
“…faster than expected.” I feel like we’ve been hearing that alot over the last few years, it’s like the tagline for the climate crisis.
Dooming is like porn to these people man. They don’t care about the realities at all, and only are interested in this article because it helps them feel bad.
Doomers just aren’t worth it.
I just got a job in agtech that mitigates climate change specifically so I didn’t have to live with existential dread
Life’s too short to spend it worrying
I thought you said you are going to be dead in a few weeks. Then I reread it, and still pretty much think the same.