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> don't have children. I don't think this is good advice. Sure humans create more GHGs than non existent humans but nothing will make you more future oriented
by omosubi 5y ago
> don't have children.
I don't think this is good advice. Sure humans create more GHGs than non existent humans but nothing will make you more future oriented than having kids (assuming you want them of course) also the kinds of people that help solve climate change are likely to come from the kinds of people who frequent hacker news. If you look at who is most successful in tech, it's often people who come from upper middle class backgrounds, at least in my experience. There are a few outliers of course but they're the exception. Most people don't have the luxury of thinking about climate change
- paulcole 5y agoAdopt a kid instead (updated my original post a bit) if you absolutely must. But trust me, there are plenty of rich HN readers who are going to ignore me. There’s going to be plenty of new rich kids out there to found the next Facebook and then wonder how they can help with climate change before they have a couple more kids.