The international scientific organisations watching and monitoring (including the German report from the icecap, today, for example) say two things which might be worth considering: Humans will not stop breeding and polluting, and it is realistically already too late to reverse climate change. By 2050 half the planet's population are predicted to have no habitable land to live on. (In U.K., all water is contaminated, and within 10 years some areas will run out of supply) There won't, ever, be a lovely back to the olden days world, with the country in credit, personal wealth or security of any kind, and lifestyles based on maximum consumption.
Corona 19 is here permanently. Vaccine cannot work, because getting it once doesn't make you immune, it leaves you liable to get it a second time, soon afterwards, far more seriously (News in U.S.A. Lancet and in France, today). As well as Covid 19, the planet must expect similar and worse plagues, such as Ebola, to be a constant factor of life.
Food and water shortages, and competition from mass migration on unprecedented scales, will cause breakdown of law and order, vital supplies, private property, the banking system. Today, there was an announcement that the country is already in worse debt than after two world wars, and banks are so out of control they intend to charge people for putting money in, while devaluing the cash people have stored under mattresses.
Street riots, private disease-spreading parties in open defiance of law, attacks on emergency service workers, have begun in u.k., and can only get worse. (Apparently, some mega rich people have tried to insulate themselves in N.Z. South Island, against what they call 'The Event', but are troubled over how to buy the loyalty of their security guards, when money has no value!) Also today, news that rapid fire guns are taking over from old fashioned knives and pistols, distributed around the country (along with plentiful fake I.D documents and passports!) for the new style criminals
There won't be an effective Health service, (already the N.H.S has said there is a two year treatment backlog, even if Covid vanished overnight) There won't be personal security. There won't be state benefits. An added human born now might have a century of life expectancy, but does the planet need him/her, does s/he have enough happiness ahead to make it glad it was born? Would a kitten be a better option?
By the way, it is nonsense to assert that people regret terminations. Some do. Most don't. In fact, before pregnancy testing kits were in every corner shop, most ended without the woman even being sure she was pregnant. One in four pregnancies self-terminate naturally, and all termination is safer than childbirth, with first trimester endings the most commonplace if they happen from nature, and the most straightforward if induced. An induced termination might merely be a way of bringing about what would have happened in any case, so there isn't necessarily anything to be regretful about, anyway.
Yes. it is being so cheerful as keeps me going! But then, something like child abuse by priests was something horrible, known about, but ignored for centuries without the whole of humanity suffering as a result, only the children and only for their lifetimes. Climate change is horrible, known about, but ignored for one century. Like the paedophiles, the nasty thing doesn't grab attention. People don't want to know, even though they know perfectly well. Ignoring it and pretending it doesn't exist isn't working. People would prefer to feed on the latest babblings about Meghan. Attenborough hopes it isn't too late, Greta fears it is. But either way, without drastic, dramatic change, instantly, humans have no chance.!