Anyone else worry about their kids future because of global warming?

[Anonymous]

Im more worried about artificial intelligence. Thats scares me.

[Anonymous]

I think about it all the time. It's totally depressing.

[Anonymous]

I honestly never think about this. Ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly never think about this. Ever.

You sound simple.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is middle class by dcum standards will be fine. They will be happy and healthy.

But it will be a sad world. There will be famines and wars and epidemics in many places.

There will be less skiing, less snorkeling, less swimming in natural bodies of water. Sports will be played inside.

OP here. A lot of my worry is for my family back home in the Middle East. The entire region may become uninhabitable in our lifetime.

It’s always been uninhabitable, it’s only modern tech that made it support population now. They will find a way to live there.

Um, the Fertile Crescent, cradle of civilization and the development of agriculture?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely 100%. I have to two small girls like OP and I think about what he/she wrote DAILY. I am terrified. It will be a sad sad horrible future for them no matter what. Humanity will drive itself into extinction, we just aren't intelligent enough to realize we need the planet to exist and money, growth and economics or whatever else is being used as an excuse to perpetuate this cycle is simply nothing in comparison to the fact that we NEED THE PLANET and WE ARE KILLING IT. depressing sooooooo depressing

Focus on teaching them to reduce and reuse. Recycling isn’t cutting it. Stop buying plastic shit!

[Anonymous]

If you really care don’t have another kid. It’s the worst possible thing you can do to the planet. You already replaced yourselves. Good job, no more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you really care don’t have another kid. It’s the worst possible thing you can do to the planet. You already replaced yourselves. Good job, no more.

+1

It's beyond me how someone could care about climate change and then choose to have more than 2 kids.

[Anonymous]

No.
I work in commodities and have studied the weather in depth. We can't stop the 70 yr oscillation cycles over each ocean, in which transition periods are the worst. We are currently in a 7 yr one.
We can minimize ozone effects, etc. but in a cost/benefit wise way.
I also go to China once a year - larger land mass and much larger population and much worse polluter - which is doing nothing to stop its economic growth and SOEs or private sector.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is middle class by dcum standards will be fine. They will be happy and healthy.

But it will be a sad world. There will be famines and wars and epidemics in many places.

There will be less skiing, less snorkeling, less swimming in natural bodies of water. Sports will be played inside.

OP here. A lot of my worry is for my family back home in the Middle East. The entire region may become uninhabitable in our lifetime.

It’s always been uninhabitable, it’s only modern tech that made it support population now. They will find a way to live there.

Um, the Fertile Crescent, cradle of civilization and the development of agriculture?

that's very small to better climate's ag. or sacred valley civilization's output.

[Anonymous]

Very worried. And unless you have f— you, money, I don’t think you’ll be insulated. The population displacement/refugee crisis is going to get much worse and whether or not we let people it, it will lead to major global instability. And we’ve replaced large amounts of farm land in the US with strip malls and McMansions. Combine that with climate change that will make the dust bowl look like a joke and foreign nations (looking at Mexico) that aren’t going to want to send all their food to us, and I think we will have major food shortages within the next 100 years. People forget how globalized everything is now. We make almost nothing in America. So when things go to crap in foreign countries, we are going to have a major problem.

[Anonymous]

AI, global warming, Trump/nationalism in the western world generally, corruption, etc. Yes. But what can you do?

[Anonymous]

The history of droughts and famines over the last 6000+ years is well documented. Especially in the MidEast, parts of Asia, and Africa. It is not a friendly climate for animal, plant, or human life.

[Anonymous]

Every. Day.

[Anonymous]

We’ll be lucky if we can stay below 2degrees at this point, but it doesn’t seem likely. Maybe some of the technologies for mitigation/adaptation will work, who knows. But it’s already here and no one with power seems to care so...