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It's exceptionally relevant. Excuse my French, but this constant doomerism is really fucking up the kids.

>"More than half of the 16- to 25-year-olds in the Lancet survey said they believe humanity is doomed. And close to 40 percent said that fears about the future have made them reluctant to have children of their own." [1]

We gave an entire generation anxiety and depression, and it's going to wreak havoc on the fertility rate in a decade or so.

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/for-gen-z-climate-change-is-a...

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Having a realistic picture of the future is important for long-term life planning. It is not the reporting of the facts that’s fuckin’ up the kids, it’s the facts themselves. Burying your head in the sand is not a valid technique when addressing anxieties, it only makes the inevitable emotional breakdown worse when things come to a head.

It is not a "fact" that climate change will cause our extinction. Point me to one serious report that says that. Your nonstop doomerism has half the kids believing that absolute lie.

Nobody here said anything about extinction. You should not use such extreme hyperbole while accusing others of extreme hyperbole.

You're right. Severe climate change might destroy modern civilisation but it's unlikely to completely wipe out homo sapiens.

>It's exceptionally relevant. Excuse my French, but this constant doomerism is really fucking up the kids.

Think of the children?? Lol, as if the environment being 20 degrees hotter isn't going to "fuck up the kids". The kinds should be worried. Many of them actually are worried and try to do something about it, it's the adults that won't listen or curb behaviors, or in many cases try at all - and at worst they call climate change "a hoax".

>We gave an entire generation anxiety and depression, and it's going to wreak havoc on the fertility rate in a decade or so.

That's a good thing, and is exactly what the planet needs - less humans. Every human added to the planet generates a non-zero amount of carbon. Adding more humans isn't the answer to anything, and it won't make anyone less worried for their future.

I'm glad you just came right out and said you're anti-human, most people beat around that particular landmine of a bush.

I'm glad you've come out and said you're ignorant. You've demonstrated it everywhere in this thread.

Not doing shit is fucking up the kids.

You need to believe in a very narrow solution corridor for that.

During the cold war you would get similar stats amongst youth over fears of nuclear holocaust. (the risk hasn't gone away).

As a kid in Canada in the 80s I was taught to hide under a desk in case of nukes, and also I was taught about the greenhouse effect and it's relationship to our actions.

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