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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds (www.livescience.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/news@lemmy.world
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[–] 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Stop having kids. No, it won't prevent the climate from going to shit. Yes, it will prevent you from creating new victims.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    But... but... who will grow the economy so we can get the first trillionaire? Humanity has never existed with less than 2 billion people. Suggesting that lower than replacement birth rates are possible is eco fascist!!1 /s

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The reality of closing schools, rotting infrastructure, and an aging destitute population that comes from population decline is going to be rough to live through. It's good for the planet I suppose, but us humans living in this human system are going to suffer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Budgets for elderly care are already getting slashed and more expensive thanks to neoliberalism. Where has all that abundance from growth gone?

    The problem is not the population distribution, it is an economic system that is a giant Ponzi scheme constructed on theoretical infinite growth.

    You know what's worse than closed schools and rotting infrastructure? A mass extinction of species entirely caused by humans:

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