For the first time in my life, I experienced a massive heat wave, torrential rainfall and flooding, a forest fire and hail, all within a single month. I am NOT looking forward to what's coming in a few years.
The Great Salt Lake is about to be renamed the Minor Salt Lake as it's bone dry.
Seems to me Utah's biggest industry isn't Alfalfa or Cattle though, it's tourism. Especially skiing. Much of the slopes get their snow from lake effect snow. That's not likely to be as much this year, and might not be a thing at all if the lake dries up completely.
On top of that the lake will create a deadly arsenic dust bowl that will damage the health of all creatures locally including humans for years to come.
Lucky for me, I'm in southern Utah where we only have to worry about rising # of forest fires. /s
I feel like if we had more water...if we didn't use it all, perhaps the lake effect snow would fill the snow cap, and then the droughts would be less.
It'd be a shame if cropdusters accidently put salt in alfalfa fields, a real shame.
I don't understand how anyone can still justify having children, knowing how they will suffer as a result of what we have done to the planet.
No one said that. It was simply said, that those who have a mind and use them - totally should have children - because otherwise only those have children who do not use their mind so much. And this would not be helping.
That is not at all what I said. If you are trying to have a net positive effect in the world, and you have the means to do so, raising a child with a good education, instilling the best of your values in them, etc., is a fantastic force multiplier and a good way to ensure that someone like you keeps being a net good in the world.
Beyond that, raising children has brought me more joy than anything else. I would not wish a childless life upon anybody. I am optimistic that we can teach teach our children to find solutions to the problems they will have. This is not just passing the buck: every generation needs to work for the betterment of mankind. I just want to help raise the smartest, strongest generation yet.
Wow, what a slap in the face of people who cant get children for one reason or another. Its fine that you are happy with parenting, but please consider what sentences like this can do to others.
More realistically its just making it other people's kids problem.
I don't understand how people can still be having children,knowing what we have done to the mammoths. Soon there will be none left, and our children will have nothing but moss and ice. Nothing to live for. How can we bring people into a world like that?
If you decided to have children, you should keep that in mind before criticizing others for driving a car.