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[MB]

Yesterday I had lunch with an old lady (late 80s) who showed me pictures 
of her family.  One of the girls (a granddaughter) is pregnant.  Old 
lady says to me: "I told her this was a terrible time to be having 
children as the world is going to end in 10 years".

I did not take the bait, as I really didn't want lunch to devolve into a 
fight, but when I walked her out to her car I saw stickers all over it: 
"keep abortion legal", "ban fracking", "New Green Deal", and many 
stickers for Green groups.  The car however was an old Subaru, not an 
EV. Maybe she's given up hope, it's too late, doom doom doom?

Indeed *her* world *is* likely to end within 10 years but damn.... What 
a thing to tell a young mother-to-be.

Very sad.  One thing Humans have going for them is their major 
adaptability.  She seems to have lost track of that aspect completely.

Regards,
MB

Gadersd via extropy-chat wrote:
> I met someone at university who told me that he wasn’t having children because of climate change. That is the moment I realized these people are radicals. This person is also a communist. I think many of the revolutions are just modern day holy crusades. People seem to feel the need to believe in something to worship and something to fight, lest we regress into boredom.
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