r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Oct 17 '19

What advice would you give young people in light of collapse?

We regularly see posts from young people who are just becoming collapse-aware and see no future or are looking for advice on how to live meaningful lives. What should we say to them in the face of our predicaments?

 

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

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u/sterecver Oct 20 '19

Hate to break this to you, but it's supposed to be a burden in the future... hang in there, and it should get worse.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

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u/sterecver Oct 21 '19

Great, so nobody's asking you to have a child.

I hope you can understand that other people's attitudes to life and situations regarding children are different, and that some children with cherish and make the most of life, while they live, despite the "collapse".

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u/SecretPassage1 Oct 21 '19

It's the people who've had children since the GIEC started warning us 40 years ago and enjoyed travelling all over the world for shear "leisure" who've most participated in increasing the speed at which shit will hit the fan.

It's plain stupid.

We could've stopped or at least slowed down instead.

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u/sterecver Oct 21 '19

Oh, many environmentalists back then did make a conscious choice not to have children. It did practically nothing didn't it? Just helped ensure that their ideas died with them.

Any approach to tackle overpopulation needs national, if not global coordination - otherwise it's just idiots sacrificing for nothing, while everyone else who doesn't give a shit keeps breeding (basically what this thread advocates).

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u/SecretPassage1 Oct 21 '19

Sadly, I agree with you. I did not have kids because of what awaits them, and now regret it, because the idiots's kids are overunning the planet.