“Your Kids Are Not Doomed”

Wilco - Pittsburgh

I read a novel recently where a couple said they weren't going to have kids because the cherry trees were blooming earlier. 

<sigh>

From TBTSNBN:

[T]wo weeks after I put this chapter together, Ezra Klein published “Your Kids Are Not Doomed.” In it, he cites just how bad it was for the average human for nearly all of human history, concluding, “No mainstream climate models suggest a return to a world as bad as the one we had in 1950, to say nothing of 1150.” More from Ezra’s column:

As my colleague David Wallace-Wells … wrote to me, “What looks like apocalypse in prospect often feels more like grim normality when it arrives in the present.” Oof. 

This is no mere abstraction or prediction. The evidence that we ignore mass suffering is all around us. We are ignoring it right now, just as we did yesterday, and just as we will tomorrow. “An estimated 20 million people died of Covid, and now we’re over it. What do we make of that?” Wallace-Wells wrote to me. “Ten million people a year are dying of air pollution. What does it tell us about climate change, which is quite unlikely to ever kill as many as now die from particulates?”