Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • christophski@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Not having kids because of climate change is stupid. You are leaving the world in the hands of people who care less than you.

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      1 year ago

      But the leading cause of climate change is overpopulation.

      There were 3 billion humans on this planet in 1960. There are 8 billion humans right now. And all those humans are producing waste, using energy, etc.

      Even if we reduce the per-capita ecological footprint, we’re outbreeding the gains we make.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll be dead before then and if I don’t make offspring then so will anyone I care about. Y’all have fun destroying the planet lol

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      1 year ago

      If I were to choose to have kids despite climate change, doesn’t that prove that I don’t care about climate change?

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        1 year ago

        The point is that climate change is bigger than one or two people, it’s about changing our entire societies so that we all agree that reversing the affects of climate change is the ultimate goal and work together to do something about it. Sure adding people into the mix is not ideal, but without more people with the right mindset we will never achieve the change that is needed.

        Let’s not leave the world to the people that couldn’t care less and will continue to ravage it for all they can until it is a desolate wasteland.

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          1 year ago

          Environmentalists do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of outbreeding the “drill, baby, drill” crowd.