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I keep telling my daughter she's likely to see society collapse during her lifetime.
It's better she is prepared for it than to be caught by surprise, as so many others will be.
I get not being ignorant of upcoming issues but I doubt she forgot. Probably don't need to repeatedly reminder her, ratcheting stress
Depends how you look at it. Knowing things have a high likelihood of getting bad helps her focus on skills that are not dependant on a thriving and stable society.
Besides that, she is a well adjusted teenager, who is happy with life, has good friends and recognizes unhealthy behaviour in others.
As with everything else I teach her, this is just a small part of the whole that allows her to keep thriving in this world, while maintaining good mental health. I think most people would consider themselves blessed to have a teenage girl this well adjusted.
Protecting children from the truth is the unhealthy approach. You don't doom and gloom it, you explain it it calm rational. There is a method to the healthy sharing of information that doesn't crush a person's psyche.
Right. I'm not saying "protect from the truth" I'm just saying non-adult minds do not work like ours and one should be very cautious to not impart constant underlying stressors, as we cant perceive how they are consumed. Children don't have the same "rational" capacity adults do
It sounds like you have a healthy dialog, so I'm just chatting.
I completely understand where you are coming from, especially with how many people only perceive and act in extremes.
I keep thinking some of us are listening to Hari Seldon and are preparing for collapse and a coming dark era. Maybe many centuries of unrest at a minimum, and likely never rebounding to current population levels (not necessarily a bad thing).
This is a frequent topic in our family discussions. Where would be the safest place to go, globally?
Do you plan to relocate your family somewhere else?
I think we already live in one of the better places on earth. Not overburdened by too much population (1 million people in a province with the landmass of Great Britain) , lots of nature, and far from centres of war or possible nuclear fallout. We are not a strategic location and have access to unlimited fresh water. Winter is the biggest environmental threat here, not counting other humans of course.
We aren't so lucky. Hurricane prone area with a heavy population.
But we have passports to six countries so we are carefully evaluating our options. It will likely be the Andean region.
The water makes you a strategic location
Most of Canada has access to clean water sources. We have an insane amount of fresh water lakes and rivers. We're more likely to eat eachother than fight over water.