This reminded me of this old xkcd.
My kids won't have this problem. Given the circumstances that have been obvious for 40-50 years I made the best and most responsible parenting decision possible. I didn't have any.
But now your responsible, climate-concerned genes have been removed from the gene-pool.
I’m not going to force children to live in a future I have no faith in just so I can say I’m part of the “gene pool”. It’s unfair to make them pay the costs for several lifetimes of greed and irresponsibility. To me, that’s exceptionally arrogant and cruel.
I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not willing to bet my child’s future on that.
I'm worried about an Idiocracy scenario. If all the people that care about the climate and environment decide that not having kids is a solution, we're just going to be left with all the irresponsible idiots reproducing. It's like choosing not to vote because you don't like either candidate.
We're already in the idiocracy scenario.
Except instead of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Comacho, we have a confirmed fascist traitor running for office.
That argument smacks dangerously of eugenics. Conservative and religious parents have leftist and atheist kids all the time. My spouse and I are both from families like that, and won't be teaching our kids those values because they're bat shit.
You can see how both ideologies are self defeating in how the rates of practicing Christians in the US is dwindling, and the ultra conservative base is aging faster than they're being replaced. That's why they're pushing abortion and gutting school systems so hard. The only way they replinish their numbers is through force and sabotage.
Friends/acquaintances with young children always want to know why my wife and I chose not to have kids. I get very dirty looks when my first answer is "there are already too damn many people in the world as it is"
The economists are the worst. "Don't you know, we need children to fund your retirement! Economies need a growing population!"
Yeah, fuck off. That's not sustainable and you know it. We're going to need to figure out how to make shrinking populations work.
YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY
YOU'RE GONNA DIIIIIIE
This will be especially true once Alaska becomes warm enough to support a jungle.
70 degrees of what? Freedom?
Temperature translation for non-Americans:
70°F ≈ 21.1°C
50°F = 10°C
20°F ≈ -6.7°C
Have fun in the water wars, kids!
I can't remember where I first read it but I've agreed with it ever since: "My retirement plan is dying in the potable water riots."
Great. Thanks. Now I can't get the image of Kevin Costner pissing into a funnel out of my head.
That's ~21 degrees in non-freedom units from someone who has to do this conversion a lot.
Also, that's pretty normal summer temperature if you are from the Southern hemisphere.
If we are being really pedantic, the freezing and boiling part of first paragraph is only true under sea level atmospheric pressure, so technically, you can't really relate these quantities with the given information in the first paragraph either.
But I don't think that's the point this exerpt is trying to make.
But this is clearly written from the perspective of someone who lives in a climate that used to be solidly below freezing all through the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Now snow seems like a distant memory from childhood.
21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲
And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@
This shit is exactly why despite having hated growing up in the frozen tundra... I'm now staying. Its not worth giving up at this point in society.
Been a....something... guys. Best of luck to you in the climate wars.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
I call them Generation Last
The crazy part is I have friends who are well aware that the world is completely fucked and they are still making new children.
The cute smile, hugs and sex are pretty convincing 😪
EDIT: of my girlfriend, you sick psychos
70 degrees in Dezember around here would kill most people, since it's only 30 degrees below the boiling point of water.
I live near the arctic circle.. it's usually -40° right now.. it's actually +5°C today.
T-shirt weather in late December.. wtf humanity
Yeah I never expected a nice day in December to bring such existential dread.
We have had almost no snow in BC this year. Northern BC is in severe drought. There isn't even enough water to fill the recently completed highly controversial site C dam.
Basically that means we are going to have the worst fire season we've ever seen, sorry america but the smoke alone will ruin your summer too
Even fucking Haida Gwaii is seeing some mild level of drought right now. This shit ain't right
You should look at the winter that recently ended in the southern hemisphere - record ice shelf losses during winter, record high temps in Rio and other cities. In winter.
And it's just getting more and more brutal.
"That unapparent summer air in early fall"
- "That funny feeling" by Bo Burnham