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Sure climate change is likely to make the climate worse than it is now, but climate on earth is already terrible in most places, and humanity needs to learn how
by chr1 8y ago
Sure climate change is likely to make the climate worse than it is now, but climate on earth is already terrible in most places, and humanity needs to learn how to control it anyway.
If you are rich enough to give a good education to your children, the only thing you achieve by not having children is reducing the number of people who care about climate change and can do something about it.
Maybe your child will be the one who finds a way to terraform sahara, or build sea-steading cities, or create some other amazing thing.
As someone who have watched too much Cousteau documentaries as a child, was convinced that humanity is a pure evil as an adult, and is too old to marry and have children anymore, i would argue that not having children is a mistake.
- ForHackernews 8y agoThere's no reason to assume that just because a parent is worried about climate change, that their kids will automatically be conscientious. Also, in the future the children of many people who ignored climate change will be forced to care about it. This comment is full of rationalization. I hear this all the time: Maybe my little darling will be the genius who cures cancer and solves climate change. Yeah, and maybe you'll win the lottery. But no, your kid will not fix climate change.
- wild_preference 8y agoKeep in mind that they were replying to "my little darling is going to have a life so fucked by climate change that it couldn't be worth living." The post you replied to took the other extreme.
- fersho311 8y agoThank you for sharing. Rather than having our own children, I think I would prefer to invest my emotional and financial bandwidth to open up an education system that provides good education for general public. I have been actively experimenting with education and observing how people communicate and learn during my free time and plan to dedicate myself fully to providing good education full time in a few years. If my wife and I decide too late that we want to have children, I think we will be happy with adopting and providing someone with shelter and love they otherwise wouldn't have had.
- hycaria 8y agoRaising children simply takes time and energy, and turns you away from other activities. If I had to take them to and back from daycare, to spend 3x the time needed for every activity because they're a very inefficient part of it, would I still have the willpower to cook everyday, to make my commute on bike, to live simply without much stuff or furniture, to do 2 hours of exercise daily (not much for the environment, but still keeps you in shape)... Considering the situation of people that went that way, one can doubt it.