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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
by tscopp 3y ago
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
- sdfghswe 3y agoWouldn't the second best time be an instant after 20 years ago?
- diarrhea 3y agoPeak HN comment.
- idiotsecant 3y agoThe best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the least worst time place in our future light cone is here now.
- chrisdave 3y agoCrap, I missed it.
- joelfried 3y agoThat instantiation of 'now' is gone, but you have more to come. If missing that one is the proximate cause for future beneficial actions, isn't that better than having it be the source of more guilt and angst?
- sdfghswe 3y agoIf you care about our light cone why are you thinking about 20 years ago? Seems irrelevant.
- SanderNL 3y agoI think this deserves attention. Well done.
- rainworld 3y agoAt 38, some 25% of women are sterile and almost all have reduced fertility. These days “now” is often too late. See also: exploding IVF rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility
- kaba0 3y agoNot everyone wants children though. Happily living with a lifetime partner is not age limited. Though if people do want children, they should absolutely know the risks.
- rainworld 3y agoBut most do in fact want children and do not really know the risk. Modern Western societies are structured to encourage people to use their most fertile years to further their careers and to keep “searching” and “experiencing”. We’re running a global, uncontrolled open air study on whether affluent societies with birth control, divorce, feminism etc. can exist long term. Given resulting reproduction rates, it’s not looking good.
- kaba0 3y agoI agree that declining birth rates and later child bearing is a problem, but I heavily disagree with the alternative you seem to promote: depending on what you mean by birth control, we definitely don’t want everyone having 10 children, which was not uncommon without it; divorce is an essential freedom we absolutely should have; and feminism is a very important movement and attacking it is just vile.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>But most do in fact want children and do not really know the risk. Given so many here complaining abuot meeting a person to begin with: Beggars can't be choosers. Figure out who you'd want to have a family with first and then get around to the whole child part. There's also adoption, but it'd admittedly be hard to be approved as a single parent.
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