How do you cope with eco-anxiety as a parent? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Croquette@sh.itjust.works to c/parenting@lemmy.world

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Hello,

I have two young kids and lately, I am having a lot of anxiety and sadness thinking about how the current climate crisis will affect them.

I also have regrets because I decided to have children while knowing about the climate crisis. At the time, I was optimistic, but no so much anymore.

It has been hitting me hard the last few days. How do you cope/deal with this as a parent?

Thanks

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[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm thinking that a hard live is still better than no life. We are born only for a very short time to experience the universe, and we are the way for the universe to experience itself.

If we don't have children there is no future for us. And I don't want to leave the future just to desendents of people like a Trump and Musk.

And the future has for the most of out time as homo sapiens looked grimm, constant wars, terrible desieses, hunger, slavery, feudalism, but the biological desire to reproduce has always been bigger and who knows what awesome things the future holds for our desendents, even if it's just the normal things like falling in love, being able to have their own children, etc. It's totally worth the hardships.

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