Climate change

*This hasn't come from any study.

The world doesn't need children. Not in the numbers currently being produced.

You're part of the problem. Your level of thinking is damaging the planet.

And yet here we are... on MUMSnet

No one is willing to make the big changes needed. And many people like to bury their heads in the sand and say ridiculous things like 'global warming isn't real' or 'well good id like it a bit warmer'. Partly they are uneducated and mostly the just don't want to accept that they personally need to change things in their own lives.

I'm at the point where I think we've already gone too far to bring it back. Teaching our children to make ethical and responsible choices is the best we can do to prolong it.

Although I don't agree with the disruptive protests like 'just stop oil' I think they have a really good point. Give it 25 years and people will say 'those people knew and no one listened'

I knew it was over 40 years ago, watching it in real time is just shocking and surreal

This hasn't come from any study.

The world doesn't need children. Not in the numbers currently being produced.

You're part of the problem. Your level of thinking is damaging the planet.

@onefinemess The solution to climate change is to STOP having children.

This is pretty egregious. The 2009 study this comes from assigns 1/2 of the lifetime emissions of a child to each of it's parents, 1/4 of the grandchildren etc etc, out until 2400. It also assumes absolutely no progress on reducing emissions over that time.

This kind of alarmist preaching is almost as dangerous as denial.

Stop worrying OP, the planet isn't in any danger what so ever.

When people talk about climate change they mean that we, the people, would be affected. The planet will just carry on, it's fine, it's survived a lot worse than we could throw at it.

The solution to climate change is to STOP having children. We need to accept that vast areas of the planet need to be depopulated, as in whole continents. Yes, this does mean that countries which currently exist, won't exist in the future. But a managed decline, planned and structured, would see these areas returned to nature. Imagine a planet where North and South America were a nature reserve. Where Africa, Australia and Asia were emptied of people, where the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and even most of Europe was returned to nature.

As a species, humans could exist in small pockets of the most habitable areas around the world.

That's what needs to happen. But people arw too obsessed with having children to do anything about climate change.

The hypocrisy of JSO is embarrassing.

"I'm doing this for my children's future"

Listen love, if you have children, you have NO voice when it comes to climate change. There is nothing you can do that will mitigate the damage you have caused to the planet by your utterly selfish decision to have children.

Gosh. This thread is terrifying I had no idea the temperature could potentially rise so much.

@Swrigh1234 I’d rather be “dim” than rude. But I don’t think you know what wine means, so I’ll leave you to it.

@Swrigh1234 Do you even know what Woke actually means? Nope, didn't think so.

FYI woke/wokesters and climate change are not in anyway related.

You are joking, right? Or maybe just tell us that you arrived at your all inclusive by private jet, just for good measure.

Sometimes you wonder if the wokesters are only hypocritical or just a bit dense.

You cannot make this shit up. These hysterical wokies have lost all sense of irony.

These threads get more and more batshit hysterical each time. How do these people get through the day.

@Daphnis156 that's not strictly true: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/climate_change/4667124-positive-action-on-climate-change-and-sustainability

In all this doom, no one ever tells us what an average person in the UK can do about it- other than pay "green taxes" which those in charge would misuse and waste.
As for life in 200 years we just don't know.

I guarantee it’ll be my last all inc- it’s been an eye opener for sure. I hate the waste. I detest it.

@Mariposa26 what do you do to help then? Your here and you breathe and eat so 🙂shh😂

@Fallenangelofthenorth the irony is not lost. I‘m not a greedy bastard and I’m vegan if the at helps lol

This!

The ice caps are thickening though aren't they?

So you're at an all inclusive, presumably abroad, and seem to be implying "other people" are out of control, but not you?

LOL at the hypocrisy 🤣

So, how long have we got left?

Human beings, as a whole, don't have the capacity, intelligence or drive to do anything about the climate. Think of how many greedy, psychopathic morons are in positions of power and responsibility around the globe. Saving the planet isn't going to happen despite how many small pockets of improvements there are taking place. We're lemmings going over a cliff and we're being pushed over by the rich, greedy psychos who are in charge. And no, they don't care about their children or grandchildren, they just want to live in luxury, wield power, take drugs and fuck whilst they can.

Live day by day and try not to think about it. One of the psychopaths will probably drop the bomb before the world warms up too much more anyway.