Look at the present of happiness that doesn't hurt your body and not what's in the (highly unpredictable) future. You, me, everyone here could die tomorrow for all we know from a random health complication, or anything. We either die or not, there's no in between. So live like you're going to live 100 years, because you could?
Well, it is worth keeping in mind that climate change is going to hit us much harder than the plague and 2 world wars combined. Entire countries will disappear. Sure its best to keep positive ofc but its also silly to pretend we will just weather the storm like anything else. It will not be like anything we have faced.
Yeah but the constant and way immediate threat of Nukes during the days after WW2 and the Cold War would have also hit as hard as climate change, probably even harder. There is always some big threat to all of humanity looming and the best is to try to work against it and not give in to despair.
The threat was always there which definitely took its toll. But unlike the nukes we know this is going to actually hit, not just a threat that it could. Of course, I dont think that's reason to just give up and decide to die. But I do think its enough reason to reassess some big life decisions around. I know people who won't have children because of the world we're passing on to them and I can't say I blame them.
And i think that is a pretty entitled opinion, but I don't blame them either. But we didn't live through the plague, World WArs or (most) through the cold war. I think the threat back then was extremely real to the people and they still had children and tried to do their best.
