I would say 90% of our environmental problems stem from this one fact. I mean we all drive cars and are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifice to stop.
Please don't project your own personal thoughts and opinions on to the entire human population. It's possible that some, even many people do not think this way. I would claim to be one, although of course I can offer no evidence other than my word.
> I would say 90% of our environmental problems stem from this one fact. I mean we all drive cars and are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifice to stop.
Again, that seems like a projection of yourself on to the whole population. This ones easier to refute though, since it's an objective fact that I don't drive a car (and haven't even bothered learning). Concern for the environment is certainly a large part of the reason.
That makes sense from a "maximizing your descendants" point of view--maybe.
Assuming a normal sized family losing your son knocks out from 25 to 100% of your living descendants.
Assuming that your descendants on average have average sized families then by the time you have a great^10 grandson you should have a large number of living descendants. Losing one barely makes a dent.
On the other hand, it's hard to imagine a scenario where you could take an action now that would greatly affect (positively or negatively) a great^10 grandson without similarly affecting hundreds of your other great^10 grandchildren.