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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/11288860

Instead, Cerezo-Mota expects the world to heat by a catastrophic 3C this century, soaring past the internationally agreed 1.5C target and delivering enormous suffering to billions of people. This is her optimistic view, she says.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (8 children)

yeah i gave up a long time ago. just don't have kids please. don't bring them into this mess.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Nah. If the climate crisis turns into societal collapse, and my future children want to avoid the pain of living through the apocalypse, they can kill themselves when things turn bleak. It's the same choice we all have. There's always a way off the ride. Every day any of us live is a day deemed better than the alternative.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bro what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

OP was begging everyone to stop having kids because they gave up on life - that's better than recognizing we can choose to stop living at any time?

Accepting the end of the human race is a lot more "what the fuck" than accepting the end of a human life, imo.

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