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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

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399 points gmays | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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henry2023 ◴[17 Nov 24 20:50 UTC] No.42167111[source]▶
Governments won’t act. The best you can do to help with the climate crisis is to have one less kid than what you wanted to have.
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shdh ◴[17 Nov 24 20:53 UTC] No.42167137[source]▶
That's likely not a real solution either.

Encouraging a small minority of HN users to not have an additional child won't move the needle.

It'll likely just remove a person capable of some level of critical thinking from the population pool.

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1. henry2023 ◴[17 Nov 24 21:10 UTC] No.42167285[source]▶
Critical thinking capable people are more likely to work for an ad-corporation whose only side effect is to increase consumption and therefore increase emissions.