Hello,

I have two young kids and lately, I am having a lot of anxiety and sadness thinking about how the current climate crisis will affect them.

I also have regrets because I decided to have children while knowing about the climate crisis. At the time, I was optimistic, but no so much anymore.

It has been hitting me hard the last few days. How do you cope/deal with this as a parent?

Thanks

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m thinking that a hard live is still better than no life. We are born only for a very short time to experience the universe, and we are the way for the universe to experience itself.

    If we don’t have children there is no future for us. And I don’t want to leave the future just to desendents of people like a Trump and Musk.

    And the future has for the most of out time as homo sapiens looked grimm, constant wars, terrible desieses, hunger, slavery, feudalism, but the biological desire to reproduce has always been bigger and who knows what awesome things the future holds for our desendents, even if it’s just the normal things like falling in love, being able to have their own children, etc. It’s totally worth the hardships.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      I like to say that life is banal and exceptional at the same time.

      Billions of people live and have lived, so my existence isn’t that special. But to me, this is the only life I’ve lived and it feels very special.

      I agree that most of human history has been hard, but I cannot substract myself from my life and I haven’t lived other, harder lives. So it is hard for me to emotionally understand how bad it was throughout human history and make me feel better.

      I do truly believe that humans will survive as a species, but it doesn’t change the fact that my children will live hardship and that it makes me really sad.

      I appreciate your input, thanks.