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Every one of your ancestors has faced the same dynamic. Everyone has thought the future looked grim since forever.
If you personally don't want to be a parent thats fine, but judging every parent for being a parent is a weird take.
lol if you think where we are today is anything like the last 100 years
Hmm.
100 years ago the great war had just ended. 20 million deaths and about the same in severe injuries. You'd probably know the widows of several young men who died.
The great war spread the Spanish flu, one of the deadliest pandemics in history, where between 50 million and 100 million people perished.
The great depression began almost 100 years ago. Like a recession with more supply chain collapse. Even if you could afford clothes you couldnt buy them because the factory that made them couldnt afford to buy cloth.
During this time Nazism took root in Germany and set the scene for the second world war.
I can assure you that people living in this time thought the future looked very bleak.
yea now tell how any of that compares to the wet bulb crisis or ocean deoxygenation
go look up what your climate scientist are saying
we are fucked
@baines @fizzle its like that every century.. "100 years ago looks nothing like today"
https://reason.com/2016/09/14/send-around-this-xkcd-climate-change-web/
we’ll be fine lmao