In any case the story is huge but the real weird part turned out to be the indifference of people in here. Weird -at least to me- because I thought that HN readers are mainly people that have a wider and deeper understanding of how the world works and thus (I assumed) a greater sensitivity on setting the priorities right. Meaning that probable extinction should rank higher than this or that new framework.
All in all I submitted the story three times (that's the third). This time I got most attention - 7 votes.
I rest my case.
Problem isn't kids, it is all the people already born becoming richer and starting to live a western middle class lifestyle.
We just need to make the desirable western middle class lifestyle a low carbon one.
For this it means changing how we produce energy, our agricultural and food system (huge carbon impact) and reducing our overconsuming behaviour. We need to make it desirable to have things that last.
Read "How bad are bananas" for perspective on the relative impacts and most important problems to solve.
We can also incentivise energy and business moving in the right direction by setting a price on carbon (emissions), ideally globally agreed though we can start setting examples nationslly.
Huge reforestation will also go a long way.
We have the solutions we just need to implement them.
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