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Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Highly religious people like Mormons and Amish have 3 kids on average, same for highly religious societies in Africa and Asia. Fun times ahead. Ironically from a darwinian point of view religion is a great adaptation for fitness

Or non-religion is a precursor to the kind of moral weakness that stunts a natural desire to reproduce? Maybe those who believe they are bringing souls into the world, rather than bags of meat and water, tend to have a more positive outlook on having children? Maybe those with no religion let the media's doomsday climate change scenarios become their version of Revelation?

Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s one of the good people who can tell us the right way to do things. Never mind the 150k vaccine deaths.

150k vaccine deaths? Source please.

I added a source but hacker news isn’t fond of analysis or thinking in regards to political issues; it was flagged.

Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Everyone talks about climate change and then they go order like 20 things off Amazon. They participate in the system in a thousand different ways that perpetuates our reliance on fossil fuels. Because in reality they like to virtue signal instead of doing what is needed, which is sacrifice.

Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Highly religious people like Mormons and Amish have 3 kids on average, same for highly religious societies in Africa and Asia. Fun times ahead. Ironically from a darwinian point of view religion is a great adaptation for fitness

Or non-religion is a precursor to the kind of moral weakness that stunts a natural desire to reproduce? Maybe those who believe they are bringing souls into the world, rather than bags of meat and water, tend to have a more positive outlook on having children? Maybe those with no religion let the media's doomsday climate change scenarios become their version of Revelation?

The difference with revelation is that climate change is real. It is happening and will continue to happen.

Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Highly religious people like Mormons and Amish have 3 kids on average, same for highly religious societies in Africa and Asia. Fun times ahead. Ironically from a darwinian point of view religion is a great adaptation for fitness

Or non-religion is a precursor to the kind of moral weakness that stunts a natural desire to reproduce? Maybe those who believe they are bringing souls into the world, rather than bags of meat and water, tend to have a more positive outlook on having children? Maybe those with no religion let the media's doomsday climate change scenarios become their version of Revelation?

> Maybe those who believe they are bringing souls into the world, rather than bags of meat and water, tend to have a more positive outlook on having children?

I think it is more likely that following religions where you can only have sex in the context of attempted procreation leads to more children.

Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Highly religious people like Mormons and Amish have 3 kids on average, same for highly religious societies in Africa and Asia. Fun times ahead. Ironically from a darwinian point of view religion is a great adaptation for fitness

Or non-religion is a precursor to the kind of moral weakness that stunts a natural desire to reproduce? Maybe those who believe they are bringing souls into the world, rather than bags of meat and water, tend to have a more positive outlook on having children? Maybe those with no religion let the media's doomsday climate change scenarios become their version of Revelation?

How is not having kids a moral weakness?

Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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Everyone talks about climate change and then they go order like 20 things off Amazon. They participate in the system in a thousand different ways that perpetuates our reliance on fossil fuels. Because in reality they like to virtue signal instead of doing what is needed, which is sacrifice.

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Re: Millennials Not Having Babies Because of Climate Change

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What's especially stupid about this is that almost nobody knows that we have a quite workable backup plan (solar geoengineering). It's not ideal but at some point it will have to be deployed. It'll be relatively cost effective and can be 'tuned' quite easily.

Solar geoengineering isn't a solution for ocean acidification, and once we start we have to keep doing it until we figure out carbon sequestration.
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