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> If I could choose to have children again, I wouldn't. I agree. I feel that I've done my children a disservice by bringing them into the world as it is. I jus

> If I could choose to have children again, I wouldn't. I agree. I feel that I've done my children a disservice by bringing them into the world as it is. I just didn't know this is how things would go.

dardeaup 1y ago
When would have been a good time to bring children into the world? There has never been a perfect time and there never will be. Billy Joel's 1989 song 'We didn't start the fire' addresses the idea that the past wasn't always better than the present.
- JohnFen 1y ago
  Of course there's never been a perfect time. Every time has its problems. But the ones we're facing now are greater than at any time in my life, and we're not only failing to address them, we seem to be intent on making them worse. The world my children are inheriting is a substantially worse one that the world I inherited.
  - Whoppertime 1y ago
    I would have been more worried if I lived through 1939-1945, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kids going duck and cover under their desk. Nuclear exchange seemed inevitable. And yet the cold war never went hot. The experts of the 1960s didn't see the Soviet Unions collapse in the 1990s coming. We may find the inevitability of climate apocalypse as inevitable as nuclear apocalypse with the Soviet Union turned out to be
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burnt-resistor 1y ago
Life involves some measure of suffering, but also an opportunity for existence, love, and joy. Denying that completely is absurd and an incel attitude. I saw the handwriting on the wall 30 years ago, but couldn't say what form it would take. I knew that prices of things would go up, wages and employment would decline, and misery would increase over time. I think there may be some very large scale (conventional, hopefully) wars and billions of people migrating as climate refugees within the next 5-25 years. Imagine Gaza but it's entirely possible Putin will not be stopped and the MAGA movement leaders will emulate Bibi and Putin in terms of war-making. It's also probable that even more brutal, repressive, and self-destructive future leaders in the spirit of Nero and Caligula will emerge. None of this is set in stone. Fate doesn't exist. Nothing bad has to happen. We can choose to reorganize and change attitudes if we are willing to be steadfast with solidarity.

dardeaup 1y ago

When would have been a good time to bring children into the world? There has never been a perfect time and there never will be. Billy Joel's 1989 song 'We didn't start the fire' addresses the idea that the past wasn't always better than the present.

JohnFen 1y ago
Of course there's never been a perfect time. Every time has its problems. But the ones we're facing now are greater than at any time in my life, and we're not only failing to address them, we seem to be intent on making them worse. The world my children are inheriting is a substantially worse one that the world I inherited.
- Whoppertime 1y ago
  I would have been more worried if I lived through 1939-1945, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kids going duck and cover under their desk. Nuclear exchange seemed inevitable. And yet the cold war never went hot. The experts of the 1960s didn't see the Soviet Unions collapse in the 1990s coming. We may find the inevitability of climate apocalypse as inevitable as nuclear apocalypse with the Soviet Union turned out to be
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burnt-resistor 1y ago

Life involves some measure of suffering, but also an opportunity for existence, love, and joy. Denying that completely is absurd and an incel attitude. I saw the handwriting on the wall 30 years ago, but couldn't say what form it would take. I knew that prices of things would go up, wages and employment would decline, and misery would increase over time. I think there may be some very large scale (conventional, hopefully) wars and billions of people migrating as climate refugees within the next 5-25 years. Imagine Gaza but it's entirely possible Putin will not be stopped and the MAGA movement leaders will emulate Bibi and Putin in terms of war-making. It's also probable that even more brutal, repressive, and self-destructive future leaders in the spirit of Nero and Caligula will emerge. None of this is set in stone. Fate doesn't exist. Nothing bad has to happen. We can choose to reorganize and change attitudes if we are willing to be steadfast with solidarity.