ShowerThoughts

2362 readers

2 users here now

Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

csm10495

The real reason no govt can resolve the fertility rate issue is because none of them are farsighted enough (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by AwesomeLowlander to c/showerthoughts

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Everybody knows what needs to be done. Parenthood needs to be sustainable for the parents. There's just no political will to implement a policy that will only start paying off in 20+ years. Every politician kicks the can down the road, or implements half-hearted policies.

Edit: Just realised I posted this to the wrong instance comm 😅

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Did you miss nuclear and solar existing? China's investments? Heat pumps? We're not standing still on progress. It's just not enough

[–] AwesomeLowlander 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah. How much of that progress, as a result of sustainability focus, came about solely in the past 2 decades? You're proving my point, that we just don't do something about future problems until it's become a today problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Quite a bit, we have not been standing still. New salt based batteries have been announced recently. You're going to have to explain how this proves your point tho

[–] AwesomeLowlander 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We can predict a disaster 2 centuries in advance, and yet accelerate the onset of the disaster until it's almost too late to avert it. What makes you think humanity would do anything useful if they had a thousand years? We'd just revert to our old behaviour because the urgency wasn't there any more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I think we might just have a better shot, or at least more time to adapt to a harsher climate. I'm not saying this is a guaranteed solution