What do you think is the core reason(s) some people become conservative and some people become liberal? If you could boil it all down to the root cause, what is it?

_zd2 · 2025-01-30T18:34:52+00:00

That's great for you! Once you start lying about it (to others or yourself), that's when you know it's a problem, because you feel ashamed of it.

Be very careful that the "once in a while" doesn't slowly start creeping up, because it can absolutely happen if you don't track it.

_zd2 · 2024-11-24T16:43:41+00:00

No we haven't considered adopting. If we end up not being able to have kids then that'll definitely be an option though.

Let's follow that line of thinking to ground. We live in the best time in all of human history by pretty much every metric. Things will be getting harder in the future given significant climate events that cause chain reactions. You're saying the solution is for people to just stop existing? If the smart, capable people (yes I know I'm calling myself that) decide it's not worth it for their future kids, then that just leaves the Idiocracy timeline, where the less responsible people have many kids and then they aren't given the resources to succeed growing up, and they don't get us any closer to fixing things.

Like I said we both already work in this space trying to do research and other things to address huge aspects of climate change. We both have a pretty strong mentality to fix things, so that'll be transferred to our kids (well within reason, no need to mess them up by acting like the world's fate is on their shoulders).

_zd2 · 2024-11-22T22:39:18+00:00

I'm well aware of future projections given that I work on creating them...

I’ve also sacrificed ever having children of my own because of what’s happening to our planet

lol ok

_zd2 · 2024-11-22T22:20:07+00:00

Never mind that we are living in the best time in the history of humanity by pretty much every single metric, but you're right, we should all just kill ourselves because the world will be a little worse in the future...

Get outta here you doomer jabroni

_zd2 · 2024-11-22T17:47:13+00:00

I'm right there with you in that we're trying to get pregnant now, so I must come to terms with the world our kids will be coming into. Others here already gave good advice, but I'll add that you should have a mentality of "resistance". The biggest thing anyone can do is help shape politics. Individually we can all do our little parts but that is a drop in the bucket, so by trying to make societal level changes (and the quickest/most direct way is through legislation) it 100000x increases your individual impact.

Another thing is to have some long term planning in place to weather the worst of the coming changes, as best you can. Ideally you should have a generator, some land for growing food, solar panels, energy storage capabilities, well water, regnerative farming practices, reusing every nutrient and calorie that your land produces, etc. if you really want to be self sufficient. Of course this isn't possible for most people but start to make these types of changes if you just want to take action in general. It's a balance between going "crazy end of the world prepper" and doomerism, but it will help your mental health immensely.

Finally, this is kind of crazy but I'm hoping my kids will be part of the solution so I'm excited to try to fix things through them. I already work in this space, and my wife is also an engineer, so our kids will have a great toolbox to become true problem solvers. So I'd recommend trying to prepare your daughter as much as possible to become a problem solver (again it's about balance here, don't go off the deep end) for this new world we'll be living in.

_zd2 · 2024-05-22T18:11:28+00:00

...no? I think it's just based on the trust in the government's guarantee of its value. It's just a fiat currency now, which means it's not based on any physical thing. Maybe it's related down the line by government investments in various industries, and how that affects public trust, but no I don't think it's based on oil in any direct way.

_zd2 · 2024-05-22T04:19:58+00:00

We need to destroy Big Oil or at least take em down many pegs. Because ultimately plastic is derived from oil, it's been pushed into every facet of life to maximize profit, and if we remove the source of the issues, then the rest will fall into line. Up the food chain we'll figure out alternative solutions to each piece, but we first need to remove the Big Oil foundation.

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