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

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This is where I’m at as well. I’ve accepted that the world is fucked and billions will likely die during my lifetime. But there’s nothing I can personally do about it. So I’m just making the best of what life I have.

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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.

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Bro what the fuck

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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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I mean… Don’t raise kids with that mentality

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Which mentality?

That human life is worth living, but circumstances may not always be, so we reserve the right to choose our own exit from it, or that choosing to live is saying life is better than death?

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