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6. 'No children, happy to go extinct', tweets weatherman after grim climate-change report

Sat Mar 7, 2015, 08:11 PM

Mar 2015

made him cry (now he's considering a vasectomy). He also vowed to stop flying after the world's recent climate-change report made him cry.

PUBLISHED: 07:36 EST, 28 September 2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436551/A-weatherman-breaks-tears-vows-NEVER-fly-grim-climate-change-report.html

UPDATE: UPDATE:

Should Climate Change Stop Us from Having Babies?
March 5, 2015
by Eric Holthaus

My wife and I just had a baby, and it's quickly becoming the best decision we ever made. Even though his future is uncertain, the knowledge that there's still time left to turn things around has become a tremendously powerful motivating factor in our lives. Our baby has brought us back from the brink. It's impossible to be hopeless with a newborn. Climate change has changed me. And I don't think I'm the only one.

So there's that.

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Why I don't want to have children. [View all] minivan2 Mar 2015 OP

I often look at young families, particularly ones with large broods, and can only Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #1

A lot of them are Quiver Full folks... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #16

Problem with that is you can't always depend on the kids. MADem Mar 2015 #26

It does seem the more conservative you are, yeoman6987 Mar 2015 #56

well, the main premise of Idiocracy awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #74

There aren't that many of those folks. Agschmid Mar 2015 #68

now, maybe awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #75

You're not alone. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #2

This... yuiyoshida Mar 2015 #12

It's a large part of why I am glad I didn't have any. And why I feel sad for my kestrel91316 Mar 2015 #3

Glad I don't have kids vt_native Mar 2015 #4

Me I'm too traumatized to have children. I've seen the very worst applegrove Mar 2015 #5

'No children, happy to go extinct', tweets weatherman after grim climate-change report GuntherGebelWilliams Mar 2015 #6

Meh alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #7

Glad to K & R aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2015 #8

other people still are though; especially super-rich people, who have more than the standard ND-Dem Mar 2015 #9

The super rich know... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #17

they can afford the cost of raising kids so they tend to have more. Travis_0004 Mar 2015 #76

Don't forget over population. Dawgs Mar 2015 #10

if everyone chose to not have children it would have great future consequences Marrah_G Mar 2015 #32

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2015 #33

Ha! No one said we should eliminate future generations. Dawgs Mar 2015 #41

I was responding to your comments about anyone having children making you sick Marrah_G Mar 2015 #88

I don't know ... I don't think the elimination of humans (by attrition, not by other means) Arugula Latte Mar 2015 #49

it's big and straw, and shaped like us! What could it be??!?!!! hatrack Mar 2015 #81

Uh huh... Oktober Mar 2015 #34

You don't think over population is a a major threat? n/t Dawgs Mar 2015 #42

It's a serious issue... Oktober Mar 2015 #43

You think it's over dramatic to feel ill about children having to deal with the death of the planet? Dawgs Mar 2015 #45

Yes....Yes I do... Oktober Mar 2015 #51

overpopulation is not a problem in western countries ProdigalJunkMail Mar 2015 #46

Still a problem for the whole planet, and it's just a small part of reason I feel ill about it. n/t Dawgs Mar 2015 #48

Most western countries make up for it, though, by consuming far more resources per capita. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #52

And there is the real problem. jwirr Mar 2015 #58

I dont think my choice to have 0 kids or 10 kids makes a big difference Travis_0004 Mar 2015 #77

the corporate world KT2000 Mar 2015 #11

I'm the parent of two adult children who have decided they won't have children. enough Mar 2015 #13

I decided over 50 years ago not to. safeinOhio Mar 2015 #14

Congratulations! Trillo Mar 2015 #15

If I were making the decision today.. one_voice Mar 2015 #18

I decided not to breed about the time St. Ronnie of Rayguns was elected corkhead Mar 2015 #19

There are lots of reasons. moondust Mar 2015 #20

I just like having time and freedom. Marr Mar 2015 #21

My philosophy about children as the same as my philosophy about dogs... brooklynite Mar 2015 #22

Same here-- I've found the role of 'uncle with gifts' to be about perfect. Marr Mar 2015 #23

You do the important part - you help out with future generations. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #53

Yes, same here. I do think that bringing a child into the world at this smirkymonkey Mar 2015 #86

Admirable laundry_queen Mar 2015 #24

Where do you think is mahina Mar 2015 #37

I'm in a laundry_queen Mar 2015 #50

From what I've read, Blue_In_AK Mar 2015 #60

No one, and I mean NO one, who does not want to have children should have them. Hekate Mar 2015 #25

I sincerely wish I were ignorant... wundermaus Mar 2015 #27

I heard this argument when I was a kid in the nineteen sixties. Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2015 #28

The difference is that the climate change bomb has already been dropped. Dawgs Mar 2015 #44

In the 70's, we were supposed to be under ice right now yeoman6987 Mar 2015 #57

Weather people are not scientists, and weather is not climate. Dawgs Mar 2015 #63

Scientists said we would be deep in ice right now yeoman6987 Mar 2015 #69

Yes. The small percentage of scientists that predicted an ice age were wrong. Dawgs Mar 2015 #72

You're not even close. "Scientists" never believed it, even then. No popular consensus, either hatrack Mar 2015 #83

I posted last night that I feel panicked cilla4progress Mar 2015 #29

If you ascribe to the current thinking on climate change, then it makes no sense to have children Wella Mar 2015 #30

I don't regret having children Marrah_G Mar 2015 #31

The answer isn't no kids... Oktober Mar 2015 #35

This. MissB Mar 2015 #38

I believed in the risk of the Population Bomb HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #36

I have two grown sons. I'm very glad I had children. SheilaT Mar 2015 #39

I never had kids by choice and I don't regret it for a minute. Vinca Mar 2015 #40

I have two children, and I would love to be a grandparent some day, but Arugula Latte Mar 2015 #47

I respect that decision and your reason for it. Jamastiene Mar 2015 #54

Would you consider adopting a child? onenote Mar 2015 #55

So many children need a family dem in texas Mar 2015 #61

It's a personal choice. Blue_In_AK Mar 2015 #59

Why are so many of you answering the OP like it was a question? Dawgs Mar 2015 #64

We have two children, and call me selfish, but I would not have ... 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #62

Why so defensive? The OP wasn't telling you, or your kids, that they are wrong. n/t Dawgs Mar 2015 #65

Not intended to be defensive at all. I was just sitting here ... 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #66

Nice try, but "and call me selfish" is absolutely defensive. Dawgs Mar 2015 #73

Why are you itching for a fight? BubbaFett Mar 2015 #80

You noticed that also? 11 Bravo Mar 2015 #91

My parents, and my wife's parents, had a mess of kids in an old-fashioned Catholic way. hunter Mar 2015 #67

Hm. Other perspective: WilliamPitt Mar 2015 #70

i respects one decision to not have kids, and would never suggest otherwise. i also value and seabeyond Mar 2015 #71

I think I may adopt. I am closing in on becoming wealthy and would like to give some kid Katashi_itto Mar 2015 #78

I have two young kids taught_me_patience Mar 2015 #79

Someone will eventually win the bet on the end of the world, but no one has yet. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #82

I beg DU. Do not reproduce. Honestly. I can't even. AngryAmish Mar 2015 #84

My reasons for not having children Texasgal Mar 2015 #85

We plan on having children. linuxman Mar 2015 #87

Sounds like you will be good parents. Throd Mar 2015 #89

I didn't, but I don't need that reason. treestar Mar 2015 #90