I guess this is supposed to be taken as a bleak joke but it won't be over soon. We all will likely experience a direct hit to our quality of life. If you're poor, your survival will get harder. If you have or want children they will have fundamentally worse lives, compared to what we experienced so far. This can go on for decades or centuries, depending on how much we can stsill fix and what tipping points occur.

So yeah, hope that is some motivation to change something. Or at least shout at some people. :)

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The solution is not to have children. Everything else is pissing in the wind.

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

[–] PeterPoopshit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until we colonize other planets, downsizing is the only way humanity will survive.

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fully agreed. But harder to sell unfortunately :(

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are other fulfilling things to do with your life besides having kids. People need to realize this.

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. But you are arguing against lots of social programming, cultural expectations and religious backgrounds. It's hard.

[–] Fritee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

One thing to note is that if everyone stops having children, it will create a demographic crisis with a lot of older people / pensioners not able to work and not a lot of working age people to support the aging population. Good for environment ofc but quite bad for the remainder of population.