'Should I even be having children?' Eco-anxiety fueled by summer of adverse weather
'Should I even be having children?' Eco-anxiety fueled by summer of adverse weather
It's summer in Montreal. The ducks are taking a dip in the pond, the plants are in full bloom -- but for Aandrianna Jacob, it's no walk in the park. Like many others, she's worried about climate change.
By Lauren Fernandez / CTV News
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The "greenest" thing anyone can do is not have children.
Actually, eating the rich would be significantly greener.
Yeah, once. But if we had to keep producing rich people just to eat, we'd quickly destroy everything.
Between those two would be suicide.
Only works if you don't have kids first. Suicide isn't enough, you have to Darwin yourself.
Yes, please non-breed yourselves out of existence.
So dumb. Go look at how the top corps make up 70% of the worlds emissions and stop being brainwashed like it's us small potatoes people doing shit. That one water bottle a week you put in recycling ain't doing much.
I know this is trotted out a ton, but those corps make those emissions by selling their product to consumers. We have a personal responsibility in this. We support those companies with our money.
Yeah, this is like the argument that it's okay to purchase things made by slaves because it's the evil corporations who own slaves, not me!
"cCompanies have customers, and therefore no responsibility to the environment!"
Fuck off with this shit.
The grocery store I work in tosses thousands of pounds of plastic per day directly into the landfill. But you think they can't recycle because they have customers?
Just because there's demand for their product doesn't mean they shouldn't be doing a whole fuck of a lot more than they are.
Completely agree, but the argument that companies are responsible makes people feel like they are powerless to do anything, or worse, that they can just keep going as-is with no modification to their lifestyle. I 100% think the companies should be held accountable and in my ideal situation should be taxed to hell to pay for the transition to renewables.
The thing that people should do is point their fingers at companies and demand regulation. It would be so much more effective than banning drinking straws.
You're kinda right, but at the same time we need to stop purchasing stuff that they sell that create population.
One example I can think of are those god damn coffee pods. Or disposable razors. I buy my coffee from a bulk store with my own reusable containers, grind it and use a French press to make my coffee. My razor is an old fashioned metal safety razor and I buy the individual blades alone. No plastics. This is so much better to fight pollution.