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LizBeth

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11. My adult son was reading scientific journals on climate change and I got a call last night.

Mon Sep 21, 2020, 01:29 PM

Sep 2020

He has been reading these papers and having conversation for years but last nights conversation was very disheartening and has stuck with me since. Him talking about this and so much more and how long he has in his lifetime with all that is happening and the stupidity of people. It was such a sad conversation as he considered his and younger folks future.

I was curious how others handle these conversations with their adult kids. Looking at their future and saying they have only so long and won't have the same kind of future that we all have.

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Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World's Wildlife in 50 Years [View all] sl8 Sep 2020 OP

So profoundly sad. SharonClark Sep 2020 #1

Give them a few more years and humans will be wiped out too ... seriously. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2020 #2

Good progress Loki Liesmith Sep 2020 #3

Agent Smith : CrispyQ Sep 2020 #4

Indigenous People were in harmony with the world. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #6

It seems to be a part of the human condition, CrispyQ Sep 2020 #7

The empires are now corporate. Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #8

Wow. They took this right out of the republican playbook. CrispyQ Sep 2020 #12

Pre-historic humans are thought to have caused the extinction of many species. Kaleva Sep 2020 #38

Exactly misanthrope Sep 2020 #40

"Wake me when we kill the plankton." Kid Berwyn Sep 2020 #5

We can solve these problems, but ignorance and anti-intellectualism gets in the way. hunter Sep 2020 #9

Maybe plastics will get the rest. moondust Sep 2020 #10

My adult son was reading scientific journals on climate change and I got a call last night. LizBeth Sep 2020 #11

It's a difficult conversation. I just tell mine that there is hope and it's never to late for humans iluvtennis Sep 2020 #13

I do the same. Mine has no want to bring a kid into the world. A generation of aware young people LizBeth Sep 2020 #15

My two have the same sentinment as yours...they don't want children. But I tell them, iluvtennis Sep 2020 #29

I can't say that any more when my son puts up the possibility of him not living out his full life, LizBeth Sep 2020 #31

I feel you. Sending a hug. iluvtennis Sep 2020 #32

Lol... And this, is what we do with the kids. Yup. Losing my ACA in middle of covid I ask my Trump LizBeth Sep 2020 #33

I'm 54 I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #34

That is what choice is all about. LizBeth Sep 2020 #35

I chose because I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #37

First step to any meaningful change is realizing the true situation at hand. roamer65 Sep 2020 #24

Any of the thinking young people certainly agree. When they cannot even see themselves getting LizBeth Sep 2020 #25

Has anyone else noticed that there are no bugs on the car headlights anymore rainin Sep 2020 #14

We had that conversation too, and yes, I have noticed, we do not have to clean our windshields of LizBeth Sep 2020 #16

So, because of these conversations regardless of my fears, I stirred up the courage just now to LizBeth Sep 2020 #18

LOL We stopped killing spiders when we learned they help with mosquitos. rainin Sep 2020 #19

Lol. So, mosquitos. I was reading last night to catch up some to son conversation and they are LizBeth Sep 2020 #21

And, of course, they will be diseases previosly unknown, difficult to diagnose, and impossible rainin Sep 2020 #27

+1 LizBeth Sep 2020 #28

The mosquito species I know of misanthrope Sep 2020 #41

Lots of water in the NW. LizBeth Sep 2020 #43

I understand the PNW's wet reputation but you wrote: misanthrope Sep 2020 #44

Because I did not want to go into all the explanation of what they say will happen with climate LizBeth Sep 2020 #46

Yes. This year the front of the car has been pretty bug free. roamer65 Sep 2020 #22

Same here NickB79 Sep 2020 #26

I have noticed a precipitous decline in moths and other nocturnal flying insects misanthrope Sep 2020 #42

Kick dalton99a Sep 2020 #17

Richmond Valentine from "Kingsman" (2014) roamer65 Sep 2020 #20

Karma's gonna be a bitch. nt Nay Sep 2020 #23

Agriculture Department's 'Wildlife Services' Killed Nearly 1.5 Million Native Animals in 2018 StarryNite Sep 2020 #30

Fucking big agriculture I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #36

Humanity as known to people now alive is toast. PufPuf23 Sep 2020 #39

Every person holding elective office ought to read the novel "The Green King." DFW Sep 2020 #45