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The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (8 children)

A toast to everyone in this thread that decided to not have kids! 🥂

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a toast to everyone in this thread that will be burnt to toast because unchecked greed and capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's great to know we'll die off!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it’s also great that we’re not leaving behind offspring to have progressively poorer lives until it’s just Event Horizon: Earth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we all had this point of view, that’d be the end of us.

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

The consequences of inaction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries will be the end of us. 😀 To hope otherwise or lament over is just wasting time. Enjoy life before it gets worse!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s a rather pessimistic view. Yes, it will be hard as fuck. Yes, unfortunately it will be the end of some us. But I think we as a race will prevail and I don’t think simply giving up right now is an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do agree the human race will prevail, but honestly I just wish we didn't. like wtf just look around us and all the shit we caused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought that too until I learned about what could happen if ocean acidification gets a lot worse.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

It will be either way

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will never create and subject a human being to the world our negligence has created.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

About 15 years ago I was going somewhere with my family. Stepmom and I were talking about Climate Change then, how if things didn’t change that massive starvation was likely, that crazed weather would be irreversible, etc. and she noticed that my 10 year old niece’s eyes were getting huge. She was genuinely disturbed by the conversation and began to say is this really going to happen? Before I could plainly reply my stepmom reassured her that no, things were going to be fine, and we changed the subject.

Niece is in mid twenties now and subject to the reality of the situation as it slowly unfolds, like an asteroid headed toward the earth at 5 mph. The future is dreadful to her.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

that's one of the biggest reasons for my decision not to

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As a side benefit, I also have all the money and free time to spend with furry children instead!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm never having kids. Had things been easier, maybe I would've had kids but it's hard enough to look out for myself as it is and having kids anyway like many people do is the worst move I could possibly make. Not having kids will have consequences against the absolute tyrants in charge of it all some day. Not having kids in protest to the system (or at least until things improve for the common person) is just doing your patriotic duty at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ditto. Not that I'd have the opportunity, but decided I'd only adopt if I desired to raise a child.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good call! If I ever get the hankering to have kids I'll just do that. We do that with dogs (rescue), why not humans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I want to have kids. But bringing them into a poisoned and dying world where they have to earn the right to exist? That just seems cruel

If we get past the next few decades, I'll bring them into a world worth living in