I don’t have kids, but I work with them. Recently I was with a five year old and we watched a video/song about how the Earth was made. At the end, it mentioned fossil fuels and factory farms, and talked about saving our one and only planet. Fantastic message. But then the kid asked me why it said the Earth needs saving, and I wasn’t prepared for that conversation.
On the one hand, it is my job to teach him, and he’s going to need to know about global climate change someday. On the other hand, he’s five, and I’m not sure he’s emotionally ready for that topic. I boiled it down to something like “people are doing things that are harming the planet, and the song is saying that it’s bad.” He didn’t push more, thank goodness. It was the most child-friendly way I could think of to address such a terrifying situation without actually terrifying him.
i can’t imagine trying to explain how a child rapist is actively destroying the world a kid is supposed to grow up in to a kid, and people actually support that
To be fair the birth rate is falling in communist countries like Canada too.
Canada, well known communist alt-left shithole of the free world?
Like, Canada on Earth, in reality? The one we live and breath in? That Canada?
i’m so fucking glad i never had kids. congratulations son, this toxic burning fucking dumpster fire of a world will all be yours one day!
I don’t have kids, but I work with them. Recently I was with a five year old and we watched a video/song about how the Earth was made. At the end, it mentioned fossil fuels and factory farms, and talked about saving our one and only planet. Fantastic message. But then the kid asked me why it said the Earth needs saving, and I wasn’t prepared for that conversation.
On the one hand, it is my job to teach him, and he’s going to need to know about global climate change someday. On the other hand, he’s five, and I’m not sure he’s emotionally ready for that topic. I boiled it down to something like “people are doing things that are harming the planet, and the song is saying that it’s bad.” He didn’t push more, thank goodness. It was the most child-friendly way I could think of to address such a terrifying situation without actually terrifying him.
i can’t imagine trying to explain how a child rapist is actively destroying the world a kid is supposed to grow up in to a kid, and people actually support that
kudos
0/10 ragebait lol
It’s not rage bait it’s the truth.
Canada’s record-low total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.25 children per woman in 2024 put it in the “ultra-low fertility” category, often used to describe countries with a TFR below 1.30 children per woman.