Today a twenty-something told me that she doesn't plan to have children because of climate change.

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37. Fallout is imminent or soon

I tend to agree with her, but I will say some will survive - cave dwellers in isolated areas. The entire human thing is built on growth. More of everything, and more knowledge. But climate change in my view depends on how soon populations start declining and economies contracting. That will reduce resource depletion and climate change. Of course it's a hideous outcome. I think of it as the scenario in Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" about the century of the 100 Years War and the Black Death. Villages were wiped out. Some places had more dead than they could bury for a long time. Take that and transplant it to our modern era.

If declines are gradual, or manageable, it could be milder.

But no kids because you think you know the future? Can she pick lottery numbers? She could raise a zero-net consumption baby. Everything used, public transit, passive solar home, that sort of thing.