Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave
Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave
Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave
Ground temperatures across great swathes of the ice sheets of Antarctica have soared an average of 10C above normal over the past month, in what has been described as a near record heatwave.
While temperatures remain below zero on the polar land mass, which is shrouded in darkness at this time of year, the depths of southern hemisphere winter, temperatures have reportedly reached 28C above expectations on some days.
The globe has experienced 12 months of record warmth, with temperatures consistently exceeding the 1.5C rise above preindustrial levels that has been touted as the limit to avoiding the worst of climate breakdown.
Climate collapse is largest factor in my / wife's decision not to have kids. We've always had the understanding that by the time we're old and crusty, shit will be bad enough to be uncomfortable, but that's kinda it; it's the generations after us that are really fucked. This shit is accelerating faster than expected. Kinda thinking we were wrong about shit becoming 'only uncomfortable' in our lifetime.
Definitely happy about our decision not to have kids... every time a friend or family member cranks one out, I can't help but feel sorry for the little bastard. Shy of several miracle-tier scientific breakthroughs like RIGHT NOW, those babies are in for some serious strife.
Yeah, my step-son is planning to adopt if he and his fiancee want kids. Climate isn't the only reason, but even before he ever met her, he told me he'd rather adopt than bring more people into the world.
Same page. There are other reasons, but cooking the kid alive is the #1 deterrent.
Same thoughts on adoption too. Can't afford a kid either way right now, but if and when we're able and willing, adoption is the way.
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Most of human history has been strife. It’s what made us. It’s all the safety and warmth and food always around, and systems that are supposed to make justice and progress because that’s the right thing to do, that are highly atypical.
It still means we are condemning the next generations to a world where we selfishly destroyed all that comfort.
Most of human history is unrepresentative of our species, by about 96%.
Your "strife" is atypical and ends with extinction.
I agree.
In the 70s everyone thought there would be a nuclear apocalypse.
A few decades before that children were born intended to be used as free labour for subsistence agriculture.
Yes climate change is a threat unlike any we've ever faced, yes its getting worse quicker than we thought, and yes population reduction is one way to mitigate it... but I don't think that makes it wrong to have a child.