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No, I try to keep in mind that most situations are transient and I don't really know what people born today are going to be dealing with.
Climate change looks pretty bad for people going into the future, don't want to discount or downplay that. But other things, from the terrible political trends and hatred to wars to failed or booming economies will ebb and flow over lifetimes, and it's hard to say in many ways if the future holds better or worse for today's children.
Yup.
Yup. I smile and give lip service while thinking how I would never want to do that to a child. Im really lucky because if I did a fifth year of college to pick up a second major and did a year in a PhD program and worked in my industry that did not make enough for two or three years. This set me back just enough that by the time the kid question came up it was in the mid aughts and it was a no not now and looking around not ever. Did not take many more years to become no way, no how, not in this reality. If I had done a more lucrative major and started working right out of college there is a massive chance I might have kids who I would not have been able to help pay for college and desperately trying to make sure I did not turn into a burden on them.
Did I miss the news that we just had the last harvest of okra ever?
I think every time period has its up sides and down sides. I fear that human civilization will soon end thanks to climate change but I don't think it's an inevitability, a part of me still has hope things will get better. You just can't know for sure what things will be like for the next generation
I am envious of people being born today. Barring advances in medicine that are uncertain to come in time, they're going to see a lot more of the future than I am.
Sure, there might be rough patches in the timeline ahead. There have been rough patches in the timeline behind us, too. I don't feel sad for people born right before World War I, for example.
