We need that, but for polluters — Kenosha Kid
"Morality" isn't very well suited to decide the future of the species. — Bitter Crank
Still, climate change is more of a "when", as opposed to nuclear armageddon's "if". — hypericin
Where the hell is the left wing QAnon for the polluters and the policymakers who subsidize and legislate for them, in exchange for their "speech"? — hypericin
Then how is it ok to impose this situation on any child, let alone your own? — hypericin
Imagine the worst depressive episode of your life. Multiply it by 10, and make it unremitting, over the course of your entire life. Such a life has no value: certainly none to the liver of that life. — hypericin
I just did your thought experiment, and I disagree. — Hanover
This goes a bit to another thread, but...Therefore, whether we stop putting carbon in the air, or continue to do so, prosperity can be expected to decline dramatically. — hypericin
I would suggest you are fortunate enough to have never experienced major depression. For me, if I experienced just my worst state all the time, never mind 10x, and there was no hope of relief, I would absolutely end my life. — hypericin
Therefore, whether we stop putting carbon in the air, or continue to do so, prosperity can be expected to decline dramatically.
Therefore, improving metrics, which reflect increasing prosperity, can be expected to have no predictive power, even in the near term. — hypericin
In fact, if people are more prosperous, they will do and they can do more to fight climate change — ssu
what if all countries would mimick the French? — ssu
I'm sorry to hear of your struggles, I truly am, but what you describe isn't evidence of a deteriorating world that would dissuade me from having children, but is evidence of a subjective response disproportionate to the external stresses. — Hanover
First, the level of pain you describe is aberrational, — Hanover
you are left with the fact that most do not suffer to the level you describe — Hanover
None of us are prophets, and all we predict could be incorrect, but the data shows steady and clear signs of worldly improvement over long periods of time. — Hanover
unpredicted ingenuity often finds resolutions to problems. — Hanover
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