I wonder how many of these nutty people posting are on anti-anxiety meds.

Anonymous wrote:As a Christian I don't worry, but it is definitely something I pray about. We need to think about this when voting for our local and national leaders.

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own.

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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?

I was going to mention that, the pp must not know much about the ME or the fact that it is where civilization based on agriculture started. PP, prior to the Syrian civil war extended drought destroyed 75% of farms and 85% of livestock. Syria's population had been largely a rural farming population until then. In the 90s I had Kurdish neighbors who with the first gulf war left prosperous farms and orchards. And irrigation has been used for millennia all over the world.

Anonymous wrote:I'm more worried about living in a post-Christian society without moral guardrails to govern our behavior.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:We have teens in college and near college age and they're seriously concerned and also are definitely leaning against having kids partly due to environmental concerns and lack of movement in US and also due to the horrible work-life balance, lack of legislation for families with regard to childcare policies, horrific healthcare options that stymie small business creation here in US, failing infrastructure especially compared to the rest of the developed world etc, cost of raising a kid etc. They've seen our struggles in these areas as well and feel hopeless with the direction the county has been headed the past few years.

Oh for pete's sake, did you ever raise some little drama queens.

Your first-world snowflakes have it so rough. Tell them to go spend some serious time talking to people now in their 80s and 90s, and they might begin to understand the definition of real fears in raising children.

Anonymous wrote:I'm more worried about living in a post-Christian society without moral guardrails to govern our behavior.

I welcome that change, we have enough pedophiles already without a system and leadership that encourages it. You don’t need Christianity to have morals.

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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.

Exactly. Las Vegas, for example, is really "unhabitable" without borrowing water from California.

The coral will be dead but my Yukon was bigger than the other mommies in the carpool line. Kids can watch video of coral reefs they will be fine.

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.

Well, my parents are in the Cape and one of this week’s tornadoes ended less than .25 miles from their house. There’s really no escaping the impact.

I do worry every day about the political and economic landscape my kids and grandkids will live in because of climate change. We should join together across the aisle (most Americans are not as polarized as it seems) to address this.

I also look in my shopping cart to reduce plastic waste. If you're going to wash your fruits and vegetables, then you don't need a plastic produce bag. There are mesh ones you can use to keep limes together if you want.

Bezos is killing the earth with the plastic waste his businesses generate. Whole Foods alone is ridiculous with all their single serve food items in little plastic boxes.

I am not sure Americans can adjust their desires for large SUVs and 68 degree cooled large houses, even for their own kids.

Anonymous wrote:If you really care, don’t have more kids:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

I really don’t understand why it’s a trend now to have three+ kids.

This article, and another like it( can’t remember where I saw it) are the reason we stopped at two kids. I question myself about our decision daily, since we still have time, and I love kids so much. I have friends with three or more kids, so I usually say something about us not having the money, so they won’t feel judged. Just trying to white knuckle it until biology makes more kids impossible.

Anonymous wrote:I'm more worried about living in a post-Christian society without moral guardrails to govern our behavior.

Mitch McConnell is a Christian
So are priests who abuse children

Dumba$$...

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Anonymous wrote:As a Christian I don't worry, but it is definitely something I pray about. We need to think about this when voting for our local and national leaders.

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

... from the Opiate of the Masses contingent

Socialism and secular humanism are the true opiates of the masses.

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

+1

+2

I'm more worried about living in a post-Christian society without moral guardrails to govern our behavior.