because my life is ruined shitheap of misery and i dont have the emotional capacity to deal with kids, the financial capacity to afford kids, and my genetics are a ticking timebomb that i really wouldnt want to inflict on kids the way it was inflicted on me.
and lets not even get into the world itself and how its a festering cesspit on teetering on the edge of fascistic ruin because an elite group of corrupt billionaires don’t want to ever give up their dragon hordes, or their ability to fuck infants and toddlers.
feeling like the whole society is absolute delulu atp. the world is going down so why the fuck would you set kids in this world? everybody is acting like they dont fear the future and everybody is just thinking one day ahead. do they really think its going to get better by magic?
The drive to reproduce is very deeply seated.
never got that. like i get the drive to have sex, to do risky things or somethink spontaneous. But you can think about kids for years. you can always decide and take your time with the decision. i know for most people its not that deep, but for me i never got the feeling to want my own kids. why would i?
I went to the Arctic in 2006, learned a lot about our climate future, and decided that if any of it started coming true I wouldn’t have any kids. 20 years later, it’s all far worse than we imagined and i am happy i didn’t bring kids into this mess.
I was raised in a very dysfunctional household. I broke free, met an amazing partner, and we both wanted children. I finally have the opportunity to be a kid again with them, provide them the childhood I never had and be apart of it, by having the childhood I never had. My kids are 9 & 11… and we are slowly having to pull back on fun active activities outdoors during the summer months because the environment is getting worse and worse year over year…
I broke the cycle, but their childhood is slowly being robbed of them.
Record rain in my area to where water drainage infrastructure is being destroyed bit by bit every fucking night. Massive tornado inducing storms where we normally don’t see them (a freak event killed a bunch of people and destroyed nearly a billion dollars in property back in the 80s, nothing since and nothing before). Record amount of tornados in my Province, humid as fuck when I live in the prairies. Smokey unbeatable air because of the one area not getting rain burning down.
I want off this ride.
Same. Never had a tornado warning in my life. Now we get several actual tornadoes every year. I love my kids and I love being a parent but I feel so guilty.
So, let’s say you have a system where people go to work, do their job, and get paid. The employer wants more productivity, so the work becomes more stressful (“a full workload”). The worker does more for less, the company celebrates.
There is a hidden element here: stress. Your workers will be more productive, however their baseline stress levels will rise over time. It’s cumulative and takes years to show; but it means everyone above a certain age who works a well paying job has a high stress burden. A lot of people live without any job security.
Stressed organisms do not reproduce.
everyone above a certain age who works a well paying job
Haha I wish
Trying to find a moment in history when the long term outlook was rosey enough to say “Now is the right time to have kids”, and I can’t.
Part of having kids is the struggle of supporting other people. Part of the joy of having kids is positioning a future person to do things you lacked the opportunity to do, yourself.
If humanity can solve climate change, we still will not be the generation that lives to see it. We’ll pass the torch and then our children will pass the torch and then our grandchildren will know if we were successfully.
this feels like that one sponge bob meme template with the trash or whatevs.
In the US you can’t even buy vegetables right now without worrying about getting explosive diarrhea. Just the thing you want for your children.
Our government is just trying to help the people of America by tackling the obesity crisis with this all natural ozempic alternative!
/s (if it wasn’t obvious)
You slash s, but real talk. Make sure your food is up to temperature. A lot of people are about to find out why past us made the FDA in the first place.
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CDC is currently having trouble finding the source and keeping track because a few years ago Trump literally dismantled the very programs that were tasked with doing so.
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Nah, you meant it was because of Biden, surely, and maybe Obama too, right?
Honestly, the government trying to help you is bad.
-ronnie
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Implying the politicians in the government are capable of feeling shame?
I would like to have kids, and that’s as far as that joke is allowed to go. I just want little people to clean my house while I get drunk, that’s the joke.
I was educated not to leave trash around when I visited nature.
“Abortion is green.”
And yet, red…
Taste the rainbow!
I was educated to not leave trash around whatsoever.
More propaganda so it’s easier to strip women of their autonomy and access to contraception.
It’s not a crisis that the birth rate is falling.
So true
And this people from Lemmy/reddit are… Well, you know what
Kids are pure love and happiness
Everyone should have the choice to have children or not.
Pushing propaganda that it’s a crisis that the birth rate is falling is to help strip women of their autonomy over when and how many children they have.
Governments should support families more than they do because it’s the right thing to do and not to force women to have more babies than they want.
Generally agree, but where did the air quality decrease compared to some decades back?
(80s kid here, so maybe my brain is to slow to realize it, because of the remains still in my bloodstreams of the lead fumes and unfiltered coal power plant exhausts I inhaled back then…)
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the comic is talking about the wildfire smoke. It smells like burning tires outside my home right now and everything is yellow.
It didn’t. Air quality is substantially better world wide, there are better, real indicators of how bad the state of the world is the artist could have used. But also far more metrics about how better the world is, which no one ever likes to talk about. Way less extreme poverty, way less starvation, way less war, way more access to clean water, way more vaccinations, etc. The problem is the ultra rich are making life worse for the majority of privileged people, and we are really feeling it. But worldwide, humanity is objectively leaps and bounds better than it was 100 years ago
But its also air pollutants like smoke particles and car fumes. I’m genuinely thinking of taking the bus today instead of biking because I don’t want to kill my lungs.
Update: In case anyone reads this. The Canadian wildfire smoke moved into my city and completely blocks sight within a mile, I couldn’t see the two biggest buildings (not to mention the huge but smaller towers) in downtown from a bridge I bike across everyday. When I tried breathing through my mouth all I could taste was smoke, so I solely breathed through my nose.
Yes but those were worse in the 80s too. Cars used leaded fuel and diesel cars didn’t have mandatory soot filters. I drove behind a Mercedes with a broken (or removed) soot filter the other day and half of the backside of that car was just covered in soot. Like it had shit itself.
You’re probably still better off riding a bicycle due to the simple fact that you’re getting exercise, unless you’re in, say, New Delhi or you ride along a literal highway filled with diesel trucks.
Well, but still during the eighties most of the houses in my area burned brown coal in crude ovens to heat their homes, the cars spit out blue, only half-burned lead-enriched and carbohydrate-tasting exhaust in huge amounts, while the surrounding forests were dying because of all the unfiltered sulphuric acid the power plants emitted.
During winter, we often had dense smog in the valley, heavily tasting like a mixture of wood smoke and burnt rubber and triggering frequent coughing.
And just staying in the inside also wasn’t that great of an option, as constant cigarette smoke was a given everywhere.
If I had to name one thing that definitely has gotten better by an insane amount, it would the air quality.
Right, it’s like - is it worse now than being, say, a middle ages European serf? Or anyone at almost any point in 99% of human history?
From the smoke of Forrest fires :-/
You’re not wrong but it certainly feels like it right now, I’m in the Twin Cities and the air is just so gross right now due to being downwind from the Canadian wildfires. We’re just straight up being told to not go outside with a hazardous rating.
Utah
Inversion days in the Salt Lake valley were so dystopian while I was there.
Idk how you’d draw lower wages and less fulfilling jobs, but that too.
