I have to remind myself to self-censor when I’m talking to people with kids. They are naturally more optimistic about the future than I am. I don’t need to give them more reasons to worry about their children.

I don’t think it’s ethical to have children. I can’t ask their consent to exist and wish I could have been so asked, but if course it’s impossible. I feel that it’s cruel to forcibly inflict existence on someone.

I mean, is it ever ethical to have children?

Counter-intuitively I think the west should be having more children (to at least replacement rate; ~2.3 per family?) as it incentivises people to care more about the future they’ll be leaving for their children.

We (humanity) as a whole were able to remove lead from our atmosphere, eliminate acid rain and stop eroding our one layer.

While I have felt the doomer’ism at times in the past, as it seems like we are lurching from one disaster to another, things are always darkest before the dawn.

“She would be my age in 2047. How much of the Earth would still be habitable then?”

I thought the timeline for large changes in habitability was longer than that? I guess that’s around the time we’ll hit the 1.5C threshold?