Why I don't want to have children.

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50. I'm in a

northern city in Canada. Not near an ocean. More like on a prairie. Our only issue would likely be not enough water because of drought due to a lack of snow pack on the Rockies. But that could be mitigated, as there are large bodies of water nearby and low population densities. Another issue as I mentioned would be an increase in tornadoes (they don't happen often but we've had bad ones - when I was a kid an F4 killed 27 people in my area). But overall, we'd be much better off than others.

So far, interesting changes we've seen due to climate change have been an increase in snow in the winter and 'cloudburst' downpours during storms in the summer during non-drought years, and then, long lived droughts (last one was 10 years or so) where we are under strict water rationing. However we do get our water from a very large river that has never been in any danger of drying up - the only time that would be a risk would be if the snow pack in the Rockies was gone, and the main glaciers that feed it were to completely disappear (they are retreating but there are many tributaries, it would be hard to see this particular river completely dry up for a long time to come). We actually haven't seen an increase in tornadic activity - there has been a decrease from when I was a child. But that could change.

Anyhow, I know nothing is a guarantee, but I do feel like we're better off here.