3 ms·
Should We Be Having Kids in the Age of Climate Change?
- andreiw 10y agoIt may sound a bit brash, but ultimately this is navel gazing. I accept your desire to take yourself out of the gene pool (yet don't really understand it), but this pseudo-scientific and pseudo-moralistic nonsense must be some form of apoptosis within a senescent society experiencing an existential crisis. The real question you should be asking is why you think your society, culture, nation or state should dig itself a grave.
- internaut 10y agoIt is masochism masquerading as righteousness. It is not news that people can be sadists in groups, but collective masochism is insufferable.
- sattoshi 10y agoThis is why it's important to draw a clear line between science and ideologies.
- wrong_variable 10y agoNo need to make it more complicated than it it: The problem can be simple modeled as the prisoner's dilemma or more commonly known as the "Tragedy of the Commons". Its quite unfair to ask Europeans and Americans to cut back on having kids when we are not setting some limits to the Pakistanis, Nigerians, Indians .. etc.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoWe've been told we need to change our personal behaviour to avoid climate change for years now but that clearly hasn't worked. It's time we moved on from trying to shame individuals to making some concrete policy decisions such as taxing carbon.