• uwe@lemmy.world
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      I’m going to be a dad in a few weeks. 🥲 (Feel free to dunk on me with the inevitable 'why?'s, and ‘did you live under a rock?’ I can’t feel any worse anymore anyway 🤗)

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        I chose not to have kids. You can have my carbon offset.

        Individual guilt for systemic problems plays well to the elites (ultra-wealthy). Unless you’re a billionaire. Then I want my offset back.

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        Mine is 7 months old now. I felt the same. Just wait, you’ll likely feel that it was the best thing you ever did. Your kid may be the one to drive some positive change. Just do the best you can and give yourself some grace.

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            Realistically, 10 probably would spread your resources too thin, if you want each to excel enough to be part of the solution.

            3-5 though, that’s a good range.

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        Human problems have human solutions.

        Renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels, it just takes time for the economics to shake out.

        Plenty of jobs in a clean economy as well.

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          …it just takes time…

          Yeah, that’s the thing the scientists are saying we’re running out of though.

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              The effects from about 250 years of industrialization sure did compound, huh?

              So we’ll compound more and be right on track in what, 300-350 years?

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                  If industrialization wasn’t global surely the effects of it weren’t global either 🤡

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                    Upgrade your reading comprehension 🤡

                    Where did the industrial revolution start?

                    It was not global from 1760 to 1820 ya jabroni

                    Renewables are being implemented in a far wider geographic than the Industrial Revolution was is my point

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              Dooming is like porn to these people man. They don’t care about the realities at all, and only are interested in this article because it helps them feel bad.

              Doomers just aren’t worth it.

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                I just got a job in agtech that mitigates climate change specifically so I didn’t have to live with existential dread

                Life’s too short to spend it worrying

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        Good luck to you and yours. I sincerely hope we’re wrong about how bad we think it’s going to get in the next 50 years.