• TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m not about to say people can’t have kids, but they should really do their best to truly understand the future that awaits those kids. That temperature line is going to keep going up (except in certain areas when the AMOC collapses). Things will be worse and no one is coming to save us. Deciding to bring a new life into that future is a serious ethical and moral choice.

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      6 months ago

      Believing we’re living in the end of times is nothing new. Up til now, it never turned out true.

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        6 months ago

        Sure, and I’m not calling it the end times. But things will continue to get worse as carbon accumulates and causes temperatures to rise.

        Having a child has and always will be a moral and ethical choice (for those who have a choice) and it should not be taken lightly. But there are different stakes now than before. And we still haven’t gotten rid of the looming shadow of nuclear annihilation, we’ve only added to the ways we can destroy ourselves.