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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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Humanity may be fucking itself over, but how does that lead you to conclude that taking yourself out is (part) of a solution?
I am not talking about taking yourself out. I’m talking about not adding to what will be a very big problem within the next two to four decades.
The only reason why we have reached 8 billion is because of industrialized agriculture. Climate change - via chaotic weather - will make agriculture in general impossible. When agriculture at scale ceases to be functional - and the collapse of the AMOC will make one of the bigger impacts in the middle of this century - the ability for humanity to feed more than a billion or two will cease to exist. Humanity will tear its entire infrastructure apart in a desperate bid to live another day. Anyone who wants to subject their children to such horrors is not a person who cares for their children.
We are already exceeding the “worst-case scenario” that has projected a likely extinction of humanity within this century. Why add innocents to the potential misery and suffering?
Ahh, you're beyond doomsday prepping
No, I refuse to look away from facts and reality. I read the science before the IPCC gets to it and “politically massages” it into useless pablum. I listen to those who actually do climate science as a day job… and most of them have started calling themselves “climate pathologists” and are refusing to bring children into this world, because to intentionally bring children into such a future would be to inflict malicious cruelty onto those children.
I'm not saying you're wrong, our future prospects are indeed quite bleak. I was just a bit surprised it's being accepted this quick already