<story><title>World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded</title><url>https://www.axios.com/global-ocean-temperatures-record-high-935b1b7e-2adf-4759-b8a6-d4747a94c809.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willio58</author><text>Is anyone on HN reconsidering having children because of climate change? Recently I&amp;#x27;ve had a big shift myself on this topic, probably influenced by not many women my age (younger than 30) having any interest in bringing a child into a world where they could potentially suffer real physical danger due to climate change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>testfoobar</author><text>I wish you the best as you figure out the direction of your life.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a bit older and have kids.  They&amp;#x27;ve positively impacted my life in ways I could not have imagined when I was younger.  Having said that, the speed of climate change and what feels like a global political class that is incapable of taking meaningful action, I am very concerned for my kids&amp;#x27; near future.  I cannot imagine a life without them, but I do wonder whether they will suffer, or whether my grand kids will suffer due to climate change.  And so I wonder whether the joy and fulfillment they bring me will be worth any suffering they will be forced to endure.  I cannot successfully do this computation.  I am left with a persistent concern that will not lift.&lt;p&gt;But then I think about people who had children during times of war and during famines.  The urge to procreate is so amazingly strong.&lt;p&gt;By definition the adults who will tackle climate change have to be conceived by the adults who will suffer from it.</text></comment>
<story><title>World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded</title><url>https://www.axios.com/global-ocean-temperatures-record-high-935b1b7e-2adf-4759-b8a6-d4747a94c809.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willio58</author><text>Is anyone on HN reconsidering having children because of climate change? Recently I&amp;#x27;ve had a big shift myself on this topic, probably influenced by not many women my age (younger than 30) having any interest in bringing a child into a world where they could potentially suffer real physical danger due to climate change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Well, the birds aren&amp;#x27;t going to fix climate change.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t speak for the women you know, but the women I know in their 20s-30s tell me they aren&amp;#x27;t thinking about children at all probably thanks to the empowerment of women of the last 100 years.&lt;p&gt;Over my life, I&amp;#x27;ve heard all kinds of excuses for all people to not consider children until they are in their late 30s or 40s, then it&amp;#x27;s a rush. I did the same.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure it&amp;#x27;s climate change.</text></comment>