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[-] rab@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

What should we do about it?

Stop having kids, and encourage others to stop having kids

[-] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Canadians, like most developed countries, already have a very low birth rate. If you want to reduce the growth of human population, you have to look at countries and regions where the birth rate is significantly higher than two children per woman.

If you are concerned about the carbon footprint of individual people, you need to look at where most of that carbon goes and what can be done about it. In Canada, the two major contributors are heating and car use, both of which would be reduced by transforming suburban single family home developments into walkable medium density mixed-use neighborhoods.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

None of those are even close to as effective as not having kids though.

I'm not even talking carbon footprint entirely though, I mean why would you bring a human into a world that is almost surely over.

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. If you have a heart, you don’t generate an innocent being to suffer and to unavoidably increase the suffering.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'm a 1994 kid and both my parents have apologized for bringing me into the world. Back then things weren't so bleak though and they were rich at the time too so I can't fault them.

So proud that my parents are intelligent and are discouraging me and my siblings from having children. The family name dies with us.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Funny to hear that, because like exactly the same here.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

That's humanities disease though. Survive at all costs. Getting metro 2033 vibes right now.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

We are parasites since we discovered agriculture

Mother earth is correcting it now though, as she always has

[-] EhForumUser@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the world is almost surely over, then you won't have a heart. These are the concerns of someone who thinks that life will go on for a long time.

[-] mr_stevenson_ii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not surprised that you feel defensive.

[-] EhForumUser@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not surprised either. I doubt anyone here failed to feel the concern that we have a long life ahead, allowing hearts to remain and children to suffer.

But is it realistic? On what basis do you think we have such longevity ahead of us? Perhaps the claim that the world is about to end is the more viable conclusion?

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