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So apparently it's not all Millennials but mostly millennials in industrialized countries who are fretting. Millennials in places which would suffer the brunt,
by mc32 5y ago
So apparently it's not all Millennials but mostly millennials in industrialized countries who are fretting. Millennials in places which would suffer the brunt, if projections are correct, are having babies!
- horns4lyfe 5y agoBecause this is the angsty hand-wringing of people with enough time and money to actually sit and make up problems (not saying climate change is made up, just the idea that it’s the biggest worry when it comes to having a child).
- bamboozled 5y agoHave you considered that people with time and money also might be better educated and have time to actually research and think things through?
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- us_vs_them 5y agoProbably a good thing. It's industrial & post-industrial babies that produce most of the climatic impacts anyway. The carbon footprint of a western baby is several times higher than that of someone born in a developing country. The more we breed, the more they die.
- mc32 5y agoSo if it's going to be cataclysmic or there is going to be suffering due to climate change, who is better prepared to soften the consequences? Or, if being a developing country is "better" for climate change, would it make sense for industrialized countries to become "developing" countries?
- cafard 5y agoHaven't read it, but Gunter Grass wrote a novel, Headbirths: Or, the Germans Are Dying Off. The boomers didn't have babies because of Vietnam (at least once that didn't work for deferments), ecology, what have you. Then they did.