My Facebook feed is chock-a-block with friends, boomers for the most part, who are predicting end times are nigh.
No, not the Christian Apocalypse end times are nigh, Climate Change end times are nigh.
The most recent article making the rounds headlines thusly: "Twelve years to save earth? Make that 18 months..."
"Glad I don't have kids." is a comment I see quite frequently on these postings.
Anyway, I don't read the articles, just like I don't read the articles (anymore) from socialist FB friends about how neo-liberalism is destroying our world even faster than climate change is.
Well yikes, living the good life without working too hard, count me GUILTY of benefiting from neo-liberalism, I guess. Also, instead of making a sacrifice for the planet by not having kids, I had three!
There's just no way around THAT selfishness, I'm afraid. I don't own a car and rarely borrow or rent one, I almost never eat meat now, I don't even take up a job someone else can do just as well to spread the wealth, I rarely travel or shop. But none of those things are sacrifices because they're how I want to live anyway. No, the only real sacrifice I could have made re doing my bit to fight climate change, although I guess not neo-liberalism, is to not have kids. And that pretty much turns on its head everything we've heard since forever, doesn't it.
It's not selfish to not have kids, it's selfish to have them.
Good luck with that message to young women.
Heck, good luck with that message to their old mothers who want grandkids.
Really I think what's happening is that we're reaching peak boomer center-of-the-western-liberal-universe-ism, and instead of growing old and then dying with dignity, boomers are going to flood the internet - which is forever - with the message that, without them in it, there will either be no world or one that's not worth living in.
Of course, with their determination to elect a Conservative Party of Canada government again by not voting Liberal maybe their prediction will come true.
Hey, I'm never gonna vote CPC!
ReplyDeleteMe neither but I've got lots of friends voting NDP and Green, which will just elect a CPC government, so...
ReplyDeleteNah. We're not that dumb. I seriously don't think a Con candidate (is there one?) in Toronto-Danforth or Beaches or many more old Toronto ridings will stand a chance. Cherchez le 905
ReplyDeleteWell Canada's more than downtown Toronto. Doug Ford didn't even have a platform and he's Premier of Ontario.
DeleteBut I also believe that people should vote for the candidate for the party they want to win, the candidate for the party that best represents their views. We all have our reasons for voting how we do and I don't think my reasons are superior to anyone else's. I'm voting Liberal with the expectation that they will improve on their record.
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