@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 months agoKids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study findswww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square193fedilinkarrow-up1615
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minus-squaresocsalinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoIf there was a meteor about to destroy all life within a year, bringing kids into that would be widely acknowledged as unethical. Many people believe that doesn’t change just because the timeframe is longer.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoThere is no existential threat like a meteor though. Sure, climate change is a big deal. It’s going to cause famine and war. We need to take action to address it both in the short, medium, and long term. However, climate change is not going to make earth uninhabitable.
If there was a meteor about to destroy all life within a year, bringing kids into that would be widely acknowledged as unethical. Many people believe that doesn’t change just because the timeframe is longer.
There is no existential threat like a meteor though.
Sure, climate change is a big deal. It’s going to cause famine and war. We need to take action to address it both in the short, medium, and long term.
However, climate change is not going to make earth uninhabitable.