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In other news, birth rates are inexplicably plummeting across the globe. Governments remain baffled.
If I saw any real positive progress being made I’d reverse my decision to not have kids, but they all seem to want to do what’s worst for the planet, so why actively bring someone into that?
In the US at least, I think it’s possible at the local and state levels, but land and money have most of the power. To me, it feels like many leaders pushed the goals back because we were relatively close to being able to implement the progressive changes federally, but it’s become clear that’s still a ways away.
Those progressive changes can still happen in blue states, and I feel the will is there to elect progressives. States just need to be willing to go into debt to bring forward those progressive programs now.
Idk, even still after all these years, I find there are still moments that make me happy to be alive and think that it’s awesome to be alive, to have experienced things that were dear to me. Living in a place with others that still care about positive progress gives me a reason to do a little better each day.
I do think about how much greater life could be if love was what guided policy rather than the accumulation of wealth that’s worth nothing to us when we die.
China reversed its one-child policy and people there are having even fewer kids.
Latin America isn’t at the replacement rate of 2 children per couple any more. You know, the continent with all those Catholics? They aren’t having kids.
Only Africa now is above the replacement rate. Likely not for long.
Human population will peak way sooner than expected.
What will Western billionaires do when the flow of poor brown people stops? They’re dependent on them for cheap labour and to deflect blame onto.
And strangely, people aren’t spending as much money at the same time… Better jack up prices on everything to compensate!
Could it be that housing prices are rising, people are living paycheck-to-paycheck with no job security, and fascism and the threat of a(nother) world war are on the rise?
Naaah, can’t be that.The cause is obviously biological. Not societal. Listen to my anecdotal or correlational evidence.
One of those comics that only get more depressing as it ages
There are lots of children already here with even less support. I know it’s not easy in a lot of places, but adoption is a compassionate alternative.
Literally my number one reason not to have kids
2019… The good old times. And then things went bad.
Fuck that’s a depressing comic
My son was born in December 2019. Not a day goes by where I don’t feel this in my soul. I hate knowing the suffering he is likely to witness or experience so a few can have it all. It equally depresses and infuriates me.
There are also great opportunities. You care, he will care. That’s a good foundation.
Thank you for saying so!
This here is straight up one of the biggest reasons I do not want a kid. Right now it sure seems like the best thing I could do for my children is not force existence upon them.
If I look at world news for the decade I was born (and more importantly, contemporary sources for what was actually happening in that decade), I can tell you two things. 1: That decade was objectively worse than the current one for a large fraction of earth’s population, and 2: I don’t resent my parents for birthing me into that decade. I’d rather be alive than not, and that’s mostly history now anyway.
The best part of my above comment, is you can’t tell what decade I was born from the content. They were all f’n bad.
Get a vasectomy, you save on having kids and buying condoms. The only disadvantage is her having to clean up all the creampies.
or gay sex
I don’t think any woman or man I’ve ever been with would consider that a disadvantage lol
In the moment it’s not a problem, but sit up a minute later and it’s dripping down your leg and you gotta do the sheets again.
Having a child is on average one of the worst decisions you can make for the climate. Raising your child vegan and carfree can mitigate some, but not all of the climate damage. Raising your child to be a socialist and teaching them how to use a gun can reverse the effect.
Raising my child to remove billionares from the world by whatever means are legal will do more than being car free and vegan can ever do. Yea, let me make my kid walk to school 4km daily (no proper public transport here) while billionaires fly to their coffee machine and back to their bed every morning and have literally every single one of their goods delivered at their doorstep with a car or van, then presented to them in so much plastic packaging that turtles can die before it even gets in the waters. We’re not the problem, wasteful rich cunts and lack of regulation are the problem.
by whatever means
are legalwill do moreConsidering they lobby the law into what they want… there, FTFY.
Yea but I was afraid of triggering the mods’ “holy shit he’s inciting violence” response
Oh, raising a child to be an armed socialist without being vegan or carfree? It’s an interesting idea, but I’d worry it’s rather difficult to teach a child ideals you don’t live by. If I lived in a place with no public transit or vegan food, I wouldn’t reproduce. I wouldn’t want to inflict that kind of environment on my child.
Governments when theres no parental leave, unaffordable childcare, skyrocketing cost of living, no social spaces, and they actively sell out the future yet for some strange reason nobody is having children:
