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Not having children because of climate change really seems like a terrible idea. More people increase humanity's power to solve problems.
by pcstl 7y ago
Not having children because of climate change really seems like a terrible idea. More people increase humanity's power to solve problems.
- mempko 7y agoWhat if climate change isn't a problem but a predicament with no solution?
- pcstl 7y agoThen not having children won't change anything.
- makerofspoons 7y agoIt will prevent bringing a human being in the world to live briefly and then starve to death.
- kgwgk 7y agoClimate warming or not, every human lives briefly and dies.
- makerofspoons 7y ago~70 years versus ~30 years, dying of cancer or old age vs. starvation or resource-motivated violence. They really are not comparable.
- kgwgk 7y agoPeople who think starvation or resource-motivated violence due to global warming will be a leading cause of death in 30 years are delusional. Unrelated, but funny: The NPS Removes all “Glaciers Gone by 2020” signs at Glacier National Park, Montana after “Larger-than-Average Snowfall over Several Winters” https://electroverse.net/the-nps-removes-all-glaciers-gone-by-2020-signs-at-glacier-national-park-montana-after-larger-than-average-snowfall-over-several-winters/ https://electroverse.net/the-nps-removes-all-glaciers-gone-b...
- pcstl 7y agoThis kind of irresponsible reporting and backpedaling by media and government is, imho, a large part of why the public is so slow to react to climate change. Imagine how someone who heard Al Gore say that, by 2014, the poles would have no ice, or that glaciers in Montana would be gone by 2020, feels now. Is that person more or less likely to think climate change is an issue that deserves their attention?
- autoexec 7y agoThat's the problem with using fearmongering and clickbait to generate profits. Every article I found where a scientist spoke about the 2020 date he was careful to note that the numbers were preliminary and only what could happen while pointing to the long trend of warming and the decline in the number of glaciers from 150 to just 25.
- autoexec 7y agoI guess some of them can be food for others /s In all seriousness food shortages are a major concern. People will die in massive numbers because of it.
- akuchling 7y agoA much faster way of increasing humanity's problems would be to increase governmental R&D funding, e.g. quadruple the US NSF and DoE budgets. That only takes an election or two, plus a year or two for the funding to get transferred to research. Much better than the 25 years for a child to get born, grow up, and decide to go to grad school in an applicable field.