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The human body is 12% carbon, so every child locks up some carbon. Having children also increase the chances of raising more adults who might solve the big prob
by gregjor 5y ago
The human body is 12% carbon, so every child locks up some carbon. Having children also increase the chances of raising more adults who might solve the big problems.
And don’t waste electricity virtue signaling online.
- paulcole 5y agoI’m not virtue signaling. Other than the political action thing (honestly think it’s pointless) and the fact that I buy too much crap online, that’s how I live my life. I just don’t see a way where humans “beat” climate change without an incredible (and incredibly unlikely) shift in how we live our lives.
- gregjor 5y agoI mostly agree, my comment was facetious. I don’t agree about not having children. Birth rates below replacement cause serious long-term economic and social problems. Climate change represents a civilization-wide threat that we can only address through intense collective action, and even then it may be too late. Since we seem incapable of collective action with anything serious at stake there’s probably nothing any of us can do individually that will matter.