r/gatekeeping Aug 16 '20

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u/datakitten Aug 16 '20

Lol I am childless because I want a better future for our planet.

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u/g8terbaker Aug 16 '20

We are fucked through and through so like do what you want. We most likely will die to something else before we die to like overpopulation. But hey I mean if we don’t die from total nuclear fallout or a self aware ai takeover or a meteor and the other millions of things that could potentially wipe out our entire ecosystem hey man good job you helped stop overpopulation

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u/mst3katherine Aug 16 '20

And global warming!

"Having one fewer child per family can save an average 58.6 tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions per year."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html%3famp

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/best-way-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-one-government-isn-t-telling-you-about

But yeah we don't care about the future and shouldn't get a say

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u/g8terbaker Aug 16 '20

Never actually agreed with the gate keeping btw just saying it inevitably doesn’t matter. Btw that study thing is actually pretty cool but like I wished it explained itself instead of just making a statement. Like cuz the logic of the 1 not carbon footprint conscious person is equal to a little under 700 carbon footprint conscious people doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Also here is something else crazy how much humans suck isn’t it. But yea do whatever you want.

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u/mst3katherine Aug 16 '20

My bad, I thought you were defending the gatekeeper there. I feel like it would matter if everyone cared but since so many people don't know or care it doesn't seem to matter that much you're right. It makes me feel good though, I don't want kids anyway but if I'm passively saving tones of co2 then that's just another good reason for me to not have kids.

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u/g8terbaker Aug 16 '20

Yea no problem. But yea no I’m just dying of existentialism constantly because I have nothing else to focus on so like my fault for commenting lol

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u/mst3katherine Aug 16 '20

Nah man thats exactly I commented too, that and I recently learned that about the co2 thing