UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge

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UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
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On Friday, the globe hit 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees) above pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history

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I'll do you one better: don't have kids!

Maybe Vote for candidates who won't FORCE people, and children, to have babies.

And if that's not enough, then at least there won't be any humans around to suffer through it!

But you're fighting against a fundamental urge of life here ... kinda hard to achieve that at a large scale. At least that's why I tell myself and my kid.

Yea, you're absolutely right. Humans are just animals in the end. Tho it is important to remember that your impact is absolutely microscopic, and even if 95% of people suddenly had the willingness, income and ability to make such changes to their life..

..there would still be a market for it, and we'd barely make a dent in the problem. Big corporations and billionaires are so much worse

I can recommend explanations on youtube. It's hosted by a clinical sexologist and covers topics around birth control and more

Yeah... after having a child we needed to double the size of our trashcan just because of diapers.

Dayum, and the smell of that must be horrid

Not really. We have one of those smell free diaper cans. They close after you put something in them.

Why did you have a kid?

All my friends are doing it.

Lmao, wow. That's bleak. I hope you tell your kid this, they're going to be living through collapse and you forced them into this because of fucking FOMO and peer pressure.

Yo here's some fun links from the World Economic Forum and United Nations for you:
Global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030 and 90% of global top soil and arable land is at risk of depletion by 2050.

I hope you're proud of yourself.

It was a joke you ham-sandwich. I and my wife wanted a family. Now we do. And so far it’s going quite well so I will take my chances. :)

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