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> I decided to make most out of my resources

They’re not “your” resources: they’re shared among everyone, including future generations.

Well, so far I have no kids. My impact on the planet seems to be very temporarily and the damage I do will be forgotten in a hundred years. If I have 1.4 kids (my expected number of kids), it will take a bit longer but still damage is decreasing at fixed resource consumption per person.

But other people exist. Are you willing to leave the world in a worse place for them just because they’re not related to you? Also,

> My impact on the planet seems to be very temporarily and the damage I do will be forgotten in a hundred years.

As far as we know, this is not how climate change works.

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