Worrying about the planet for your DCs

[Eirlys]

Don't read this if you're feeling a bit depressed!

But

Does anyone else sometimes worry about the chances of an environmental cataclysm during the life of their DCs?

I was into being green pre-kids, its not that I have become more green, but now I think further into the future, particularly beyond my own lifetime.

It stops me when I'm reaching for the disposable because I'm too lazy to go downstairs and check if i have any dry reusables.

I don't want to get too morbid and depressing here, but I'd like other people's views, especially if you have come up with some way of accepting and coping. At the minute its just an occaisional pang for me, but i have a habit of rolling things around in my mind and letting them grow and grow!

I worry more about being able to keep a roof over their heads to be honest!

Yes I can identify with this. In fact I often sit in bed wondering about MASSIVE tidal waves, hurricanes that are the biggest ones ever etc - but mostly its tidal waves. I often think - there isnt a huge amount I can do - but I do have some ideas about being being able to get up on the roof of the house etc.

Sorry I cant give you anything more useful - but you are not alone!!

Yes, I do. I am always totally and utterly bemused and/ or infuriated depending on how I am feeling that there are people out there with children who aren't really, really worried about this stuff. Sure, the scientists may all be wrong, but I'm not up for even a small chance that we are going to f* up the world for our kids.
Sorry. Rant over. You did ask . . .

Oh me too. (at the risk of sounding like Granny Murray )

I keep thinking I should be preparing for ANY eventuality, and berating myself for not doing so. Although i do have an emergency survival kit in the house - food and kelly kettle and candles etc.

It depends on my mood as to how maudlin i get about it all. If i stay away from RAdio 4 and the news on TV im generally ok, but thats hard to do! I think im more worried about what other children are facing right now than i am about the future - just because its happening at this moment. I suppose i deal with it by doing what i can and then trying not to think about it - in the interests of self preservation. You aren't alone.