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climate doomerism

How do you cope with the impending climate collapse? I try so hard to just keep on going one day at a time but sometimes I get so deep in the darkness I have to go out and grab a coffee or something to keep my kid from seeing my mood and asking what's wrong.

I don't see the world being a good place for them to live by the time they're an adult and I feel intense guilt for bringing them into such a world. I've got plenty of arguments against antinatalism, I have plenty of theoretical reasons why people should continue to have children (only the fash having kids seems like a bad thing) but at the end of the day I feel like they will resent having been born when they find out that I was well aware of the state of the world at the time.

Sorry for the bad vibes.

If you don't have kids and reply I might get upset but I'll try to just ignore you

  • Melonius [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    Other replies cover it better, but I tend to fall back on a little toxic stoicism for coping. Climate change isn't going to be a light switch, things will change over time. You, me and our children are going to adapt to it. My middle kid is happy with a bowl of rice and running around outside, if we need to adjust to digging an underground mud hole while eating tree roots, well still eek out a good time somehow.