• Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Honestly, I hate to jump on the antinatalism bandwagon but having a child now would almost certainly condemn them to an existence of scarcity and pain.

        What makes this doubly difficult is that if we had acted at the first sign of trouble, we almost certainly could have lived comfortable lives with minimal sacrifices and every year we put it off the sacrifices we would have to make in order to maintain our climate get more severe.

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          9 months ago

          There be other generations but I think you are wrong to be so confident. Those next generations will not have an organized society and quite possibly will not have any form of internet or a lot of technology in general.

          Shit is going to get BAD and FAST.

          • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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            9 months ago

            Eh things will get more dire but doubt it’s happening anywhere fast enough for that

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              9 months ago

              It’s already having nasty effects already? Storms are worse and more intense, more flooding that kills people… how many people have to die before you say “that was quicker than I expected”?

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                9 months ago

                How would stuff I know have happened already in a timescale I know be unexpected to me?

                Shit would have to get worse at a rate beyond what’s expected now for me to think it was quicker than expected.

                It’s like doing multiplication. 1*2 = 2. Okay makes sense. 2*2 = 4 oh damn that was quicker than expected! lol

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              9 months ago

              What are you basing that conclusion on, other than vibes?

              Seriously, have you looked at ANY of the data? Any reports or papers written by people who study it?

              The theme is consistent among them: sooner and worse than expected.

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                9 months ago

                The actual data. It doesn’t say at all that we won’t survive a generation.

                The theme is consistent among them: sooner and worse than expected.

                Compared to what exactly? A lot of the data just confirms the earlier data