The biggest winnable fight right now is habitat protection and restoration. Visit natural places with them, show them how to protect those spaces, and plant native plants in your area to help the local ecosystem. Learn about the flora and fauna native to your area and teach your children to recognize and care for them.

Habitat destruction could destroy our biosphere well before climate change, but healthy ecosystems will better withstand CC.

It doesnt solve everything, but it helps.

Our generation can no longer solve the problem in our lifetime so it's critical that people who understand the challenge have and raise children who can hopefully finish our work.

Do what you can build the best foundation you can and instill the value of service in them. Then hope for the best and flight till the end for things to get better.

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.

Cope? I don’t really. Kid has already been alive for a long while now and there’s not much I can do about it so I’ll just hope for the best (however far fetched that is). But believe me that existential dread is there.

It's hard. I am enmeshed in modernity fairly thoroughly but I am trying to do better. I have an EV heat pump and all electric house, I try to find others that are also aware of how bad things are likely to get in future, I am doing National Tree Day every year and also growing veges and fruits and herbs at home, and I am trying to limit exposure to and use of plastics (but that is soy damn hard unless plastics become illegal...)

Being aware and using that awareness to try and change behaviour is a big focus. But also, don't be too hard on yourself. We were born into this mess too, we didn't create it in one generation, and it is likely to be a slower decline from a human perspective rather than instantaneous, though on geological scale it's basically a blink of an eye. I was super scared of global warming and nuclear war as a kid, and while risks of both have increased I'm still alive and even with a choice to reduce use of certain things, I think I still have a great life, and my daughter has so far too.

You've been reading the news too, huh?

I wish I knew. I spent the first 30ish years of my life opting out of GHG-producing systems, and trying to get the right people elected. I stopped when I had kids because it was too hard. I dunno. I don't feel like my advocacy or self-denial helped. And my normie lifestyle definitely isn't helping.

I really don't know. Climate change is clearly happening, but nobody seems to care. Back to advocacy, I guess?

I'm thinking, they will still almost certainly have a better life than 99,999% of humans who ever lived. I worried about it more, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and after I lost my job for a while, my brain decided ecology is not really that important anymore.

I'm more concerned with getting my children to leave the US, and failing badly, however I try to convince them to move to places with lower waste/consumption per capita, in the hopes they will learn to live like the locals and not be such a burden to the planet, as I have been.

Aside from having children - Driving and eating red meat are the biggest contributors that an individual can easily control. Cutting these out of your life can help and might make you feel better about the situation.

If you have an electric car the driving point is slightly less of a concern, and even reducing your red meat intake to a couple times a week will help.

Ultimate, the vast vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from giant corporations, Boycotting as many of the major pollutors as you can and encouraging others to do so is perhaps harder than the above but would be the best thing an individual can do.

Rally for systemic change, protest, firebomb an oil companies headquarters. Contact your local representative and ask them what they're doing to fight climate change. Volumteer with an environmental group.

There's a lot you can do. Will any of it work? Probably not, but if will help the cause

I know how you feel. It has also been something in the back of my mind over the past few years and my child is going to face challenges that my parents' generation never had.

The way I deal with it is to try to future-proof my home and maintain relationships with my family and neighbours as much as possible.

We've put in a lot of effort over the past few years to improve our home's insulation and its longevity, as well as non-energy aspects such as accessibility. The goal is not to be completely independent; that's not possible in the modern world. But it is possible to build a more resilient lifestyle.

On a community level, we have built relationships with several of our neighbours and now look out for each other; e.g. we keep an eye on each other's properties when one of us is away, or supported another when they had a medical emergency. We also have a neighbourhood house in our community so that things like bread, fruit and vegetables that would otherwise be tossed by the supermarkets don't go to waste and people who need them can access them.

The other thing I try to do is advocate where I can. I write to politicians, I support petitions, and I talk with friends and family who don't share my concerns (a very slow process).

I've wrestled with this a lot. I had my first kid before I woke up, and my second after (unplanned).

All I can say is, try to raise the people the future needs. My oldest is already on her way to being a great human with a good compass and a big heart. My youngest, a boy, is gonna wash the goddamn dishes. They both will have a critical mind and my library to help.

Civilization is collapsing but the apocalypse isn't that imminent. Life will go on, for most of us, one way or another. We should make sure its not full of characters from Idiocracy.

Never regret your children. Your children chose to be alive at this time, and they chose you as a parent. I’d they didn’t want to be here, they wouldn’t.

Do your best, control what you can. Control your breath. You can’t control the behaviors of a billion people. You can do a lot to prepare your family for the next 50 years.