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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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mine was born yesterday, phew! imagine if they were born a day later!
Congratulations (if this isn't a joke)!!! I'd love to help make the world habitable for your child.
no I'm never having kids
unless the world somehow fixes itself and somehow guarantees it'll stay that way for more than a few seconds.
Start by going vegan and catching public transport. Thirdly, don't have kids.
Putting that third understates it, having kids is the worst thing a person can do
That is a really skewed stat. Having kids is only the worse thing a person can do, because of the average person's lifestyle (and therefore that kid's future lifestyle). How many cows are born each year (and release methane gasses into the atmosphere) just because the average person won't go without meat or milk?
If the average person didn't drive and was vegan, then the impact of having kids would be severely reduced.
EDIT: Put it this way, what do you think would be the environmental impact of a hermit dude living in the mountains who grows his own plant food? It might be an extreme example, but the point is illustrated.
You’re putting somebody else through a life they deserve better than
That's an entirely separate discussion, I'm just talking about the environmental impact of having kids. The impact of having a kid is just the impact they will have as a person.