Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds

Thank goodness my second child isn’t due today.

I’m 42 and I’ve been told this like every 5 years or so.

This is actually optimistic. They think kids are going to grow up.

It's gonna be awesome when we're old and need end of life care and the younger generations are too poor to help us and too stupid to help us even if they weren't poor.

We're headed into a very, very stupid and depressing future. And it's 100% avoidable.

Millennials been saying this since we were teens but were told to shut up and sit down

And we're STILL not willing to reign in capitalism.

We doomed ourselves. My pity is reserved for all the species we're taking with us in this murder/suicide for short term profit for the avarice diseased. Those capitalists are by far most to blame, but no one that contributes to the capitalist machine, myself included, is without blame for the effectively permanent destruction of our COMMUNal habitat.

Unless you're an eco-terrorist who has been actively trying to destroy the capitalist machine, the precious few good guys as far as I'm concerned if your goal is a viable habitat for our species at all beyond the next couple decades, we've all been seeing this oncomming train heading towards us our entire lives and done nothing of note.

We can't keep living like we've been living, as gluttonous consumers with 78 kinds of plastic packaged cereal made a thousand miles away in any form AND survive as a species, and it's clear which choice we've made. We aren't willing to live closer to the land, to farm the food our community eats, to live small lives understanding we are subject to earth and not the other way around, so we gotta go so life can go on without us.

Stop having kids. No, it won't prevent the climate from going to shit. Yes, it will prevent you from creating new victims.

YES WE FUCKING KNOW

So uh what do I call what we are living in right now?

In an analysis of human exposure to climate change extremes — such as heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, cyclones and crop failures — researchers found that children born in 2020 are two to seven times more likely to face one-in-10,000 year events than those who were born in 1960.

Why pick (great) grandparents as the reference point?

Wouldn't it be more practical to compare them with their parents?

Edit: the actual study does show comparative data for other cohorts (i.e. every decade since 1960). Unless the average LiveScience reader is in their 60s, they just picked a weirdly unrelatable way to describe the study.

Umm actually this is just woke and we should have more children for racist reasons /s

We will have to teach that there are five seasons now: spring, summer, inferno, autumn and winter.

Stop eating animals! Proof that you care and commit to change a destructive habit.

Don't worry, they are not growing up

We are the extinction event

GDP growth is also very high, and our productivity is increasing with Cloud, AI, and automation. So we will have more people to deal with it in the future at least.

And people say I'm somehow selfish or pathetic for not wanting to give any possible kids an undue burden, even assuming they are a white cis-male able-bodied person, the exact thing a fascist wants in this nation.

It's just foolish or genuinely spiteful to have kids in this time. Even if you can give them a good childhood, healthy, happy, nothing wrong with em at all, you can't fix the climate.

There's so many reasons I'm not having kids. My brother on the other hand is having kids with half the state of Idaho. I'll do what I can for my niblings but I don't have enough damage control to go around

So, Blade Runner was a future documentary ? And then Blade Runner 2049?

Thank you MAGATs for destroying our country and the world.

Such is life

Lol, not mine. Good fucking luck to you chumps living below the arctic circle though!

At least they won’t have to worry about not being able to afford a house…

But it would be super cool if our generation could pre-pay their spot in a vault

The researchers note that their study is far from complete — they didn’t model climate change’s impacts on fertility, mortality or migration. This means that the effects of climate change in sparking mass migrations and resource wars were not accounted for in their analysis, and neither were the various tipping points our warming world is edging closer toward.

asuming i'll want kids...

When they don't get to grow up. The species expires. Good job OG&E, way to go. Stupid greedy corporate shills. 😓

Just wait till tomorrow to have your kids. Kegels it in!