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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Millennials been saying this since we were teens but were told to shut up and sit down

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

And we did...

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I would be sad about this, but I think I've used up all my sad, and now I'm just pissed. We could prevent all of this, but its gonna have to get really really bad before we drag our leaders out into the streets over this crap. It's a sad day for our species, and barely anybody even notices.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You still have piss? I’m so pissed out. It’s just comedy at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (9 children)

We could prevent all of this, but its gonna have to get really really bad before we drag our leaders out into the streets over this crap.

And it's a one-way progression, so if we let it get to that point it's going to stay at that point even after the leaders are gotten rid of. In order to actually solve the problem properly, we have to do it before it gets bad enough for normies to support it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

and now I'm just pissed.

Great. Sad leads to apathy; angry leads to guillotines.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's so many reasons I'm not having kids. My brother on the other hand is having kids with half the state of Idaho. I'll do what I can for my niblings but I don't have enough damage control to go around

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

It's half the state of Idaho, Michael. What could it be, 10 women?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

And we're STILL not willing to reign in capitalism.

We doomed ourselves. My pity is reserved for all the species we're taking with us in this murder/suicide for short term profit for the avarice diseased. Those capitalists are by far most to blame, but no one that contributes to the capitalist machine, myself included, is without blame for the effectively permanent destruction of our COMMUNal habitat.

Unless you're an eco-terrorist who has been actively trying to destroy the capitalist machine, the precious few good guys as far as I'm concerned if your goal is a viable habitat for our species at all beyond the next couple decades, we've all been seeing this oncomming train heading towards us our entire lives and done nothing of note.

We can't keep living like we've been living, as gluttonous consumers with 78 kinds of plastic packaged cereal made a thousand miles away in any form AND survive as a species, and it's clear which choice we've made. We aren't willing to live closer to the land, to farm the food our community eats, to live small lives understanding we are subject to earth and not the other way around, so we gotta go so life can go on without us.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We will have to teach that there are five seasons now: spring, summer, inferno, autumn and winter.

[–] Birch 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Storm, Flood, Heatwave, Fire, Dust, Blizzard

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

With our powers combined, we call Captain Pollution.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's gonna be awesome when we're old and need end of life care and the younger generations are too poor to help us and too stupid to help us even if they weren't poor.

We're headed into a very, very stupid and depressing future. And it's 100% avoidable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Welcome to COSCO, I love you.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

*was avoidable, by taking steps 25-40 years ago. Boomers took us right over the edge of any cliff they could find, again and again.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Umm actually this is just woke and we should have more children for racist reasons /s

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thank you MAGATs for destroying our country and the world.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's capitalism.

Oil companies have known about this shit since the 70s and there's been billions spent to manufacture your consent, keep the current power structures, and prevent change. Both parties maintain that status quo, don't forget that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Not just MAGAs, this is on the whole world. I feel like they've been talking about and warning about global warming for all 39 years of my life now and most of these clown nations still have vague targets set for 2030, 2040 etc. Head clown Trump might be helping speed it up now but no one has approached this with any particular urgency. Our world leaders are just as effective at fighting climate change as they've been fighting misinformation on Twitter and Facebook.

I personally think that if there is a future where we write history books, our current crop of leaders in the world today are going to go down as the absolute worst and most useless sacks of shit, that sold out their people to both fascism and climate change.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is actually optimistic. They think kids are going to grow up.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

At least they won’t have to worry about not being able to afford a house…

But it would be super cool if our generation could pre-pay their spot in a vault

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

YES WE FUCKING KNOW

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lol, not mine. Good fucking luck to you chumps living below the arctic circle though!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shit, just what I want to read while my girlfriend is in labour.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just tell her to try and hold things in until tomorrow, that should help.

Congrats!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (13 children)

And people say I'm somehow selfish or pathetic for not wanting to give any possible kids an undue burden, even assuming they are a white cis-male able-bodied person, the exact thing a fascist wants in this nation.

It's just foolish or genuinely spiteful to have kids in this time. Even if you can give them a good childhood, healthy, happy, nothing wrong with em at all, you can't fix the climate.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Thank goodness my second child isn’t due today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (64 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m 42 and I’ve been told this like every 5 years or so.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And have you not seen things heading in that direction? I’m 57 and I sure as hell have.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh yes definitely I’ve seen it slowly going from bad to worse, I guess i meant to say that I’m tired and exhausted from it. And from no one in power actually wanting to do anything about fixing it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The researchers note that their study is far from complete — they didn’t model climate change’s impacts on fertility, mortality or migration. This means that the effects of climate change in sparking mass migrations and resource wars were not accounted for in their analysis, and neither were the various tipping points our warming world is edging closer toward.

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