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    My advice is to live your life as best as you can without worrying too much about things you can’t control. Try and build a life around yourself that’ll help you be happy through it all, regardless of what happens. Enjoy your 20’s. 30’s are good too and 40’s don’t suck either.

    To paraphrase Sun Tzu: do not choose a path to victory. Instead, choose a strategy such that all paths lead to victory.

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        Have kids if you want. It’s just insane to me to plan your entire life and make major decisions on a cataclysm that may or may not even occur in your lifetime; and it (climate change) may present in ways that we can’t even imagine now.

        Edit, fine, fuck me, it’s raining fire and brimstone out there, billions of people are dying in the streets, the horsemen of the apocalypse are here, it’s game over for the human species, my bad. Nobody have kids, it’s over, might as well just shoot yourself right now.

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        This one’s kinda loaded. Imagine everyone just stopped having kids. We’d be extinct.

        We don’t need to pump them out like we’re recovering from a war.

        Also whose gonna take care of all our old asses in the future? Society was kinda built on this system.

        But yes, the population overall does need to decrease.

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          I don’t care if we go extinct. Once I’m dead reality shuts down since I can only experience it from my POV.

          And it’s cute you think we’re gonna allowed to retire instead of dying at work or homeless. Real cute. We won’t have the same luxuries as the damn boomers.

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            100% agree. We are so fucked for retirement. That term should almost be removed from the dictionary, since it will no longer exist 😅

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      My advice is to learn how to grow food and save seeds. I’m doing it now to develop my skills in anticipation of some day needing those skills.

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      Try and build a life around yourself that’ll help you be happy through it all

      Lmao good luck with that when global food chains collapse.

      Welcome to the battle sphere. 7billion people enter, 1 billion people leave.

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        How’s your underground bunker going? If you aren’t currently either living in one or building one you should probably stop talking shit about billions dying.

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          Underground bunkers are a prepper fantasy held by people with masculinity issues. They’re completely useless without supply chains and communities to support them.

          What gets people through hardtimes isn’t individualist isolationism. It is collective support, community building and cooperation. The pooling together of labour within groups in order to perform tasks more efficiently overall for the collective benefit.

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            My understanding is that communities require children to continue existing. People in this thread are saying they don’t want children because climate change. My position is that that opinion is really stupid, and what you just said about communities would suggest you feel the same.

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              I don’t think there is any particular problem with people having fewer children. It creates a short-term labour burden in terms of having to divert more resources to elderly care but the rate of birth change isn’t likely to change too dramatically to affect much. You just reduce the population over time and that’s fine. Fewer people isn’t a problem as long as the labour exists to support the food, clothing and shelter output you require for the combination of capable + incapable that your community has. Starvation in the short term is the larger concern.