Man I deeply, deeply dislike the whole "Irresponsible to have kids because of the climate" thing. It's straight up disinformation that no climate scientist endorses. It just fits the vibes of journalists who don't push back on it, and I find it deeply irresponsible on the part of the journalists who parrot it uncritically.
Something like half of zoomers think they have 'no future' because of climate change and its just. not. fucking. true. Can we be serious for a second? Why is the media reinforcing that as though their misinformed social media vibes are more important than the actual facts? Climate change is going to cause many bad things to happen but this kind of 'the world is doomed' stuff is nonsense. Maybe journalists completely giving up on their responsibility is part of the reason kids have a mental health crisis going on. Stunning lack of self-insight.
Hmm. I think for some there's a bit of "this is a good reason to explain that I'm not having kids" (because of x personal reason). Don't want kids because they're expensive, take up a lot of your time, are loud, messy, pregnancy looks unappealing, etc.? People will call you selfish Don't want them because they won't have a future thanks to the planet being ruined? Selfless sacrifice.
Which isn't to say that some people aren't absolutely sincere about this, and I've seen people say they feel guilty having had kids because of doomerism, but this could be a factor.
I have all of my Teen Vogues. The ‘Room of one’s own’ feature was a highlight for me because you’d have these tweens showing off their vintage oak sleigh beds and casual $6,000 Coco Chanel Bearbricks and then Teen Vogue would jump in with the old “okay, you’re probably going, “okay, is this like a Noxema commercial or what? But seriously [she] actually has a way normal life for a teenage girl”. It sold me aspirational media consumption in a way normal Vogue didn’t, because it targeted those specific class insecurities in a way I didn’t fully understand yet. I thought of it as a feeder magazine into ‘older’ Condé Nast publications.
Now you can conceivably live like a celebrity, but you could never live like the kid of a designer and an award winning director in a brownstone. Sea of Shoes being invited to debut at the Crillon Ball in Chanel couture was a particularly painful experience.
and to think I coined the epithet of a whole generation ... 🙃
the ben dietz effect!!!
Man I deeply, deeply dislike the whole "Irresponsible to have kids because of the climate" thing. It's straight up disinformation that no climate scientist endorses. It just fits the vibes of journalists who don't push back on it, and I find it deeply irresponsible on the part of the journalists who parrot it uncritically.
Something like half of zoomers think they have 'no future' because of climate change and its just. not. fucking. true. Can we be serious for a second? Why is the media reinforcing that as though their misinformed social media vibes are more important than the actual facts? Climate change is going to cause many bad things to happen but this kind of 'the world is doomed' stuff is nonsense. Maybe journalists completely giving up on their responsibility is part of the reason kids have a mental health crisis going on. Stunning lack of self-insight.
Hmm. I think for some there's a bit of "this is a good reason to explain that I'm not having kids" (because of x personal reason). Don't want kids because they're expensive, take up a lot of your time, are loud, messy, pregnancy looks unappealing, etc.? People will call you selfish Don't want them because they won't have a future thanks to the planet being ruined? Selfless sacrifice.
Which isn't to say that some people aren't absolutely sincere about this, and I've seen people say they feel guilty having had kids because of doomerism, but this could be a factor.
I have all of my Teen Vogues. The ‘Room of one’s own’ feature was a highlight for me because you’d have these tweens showing off their vintage oak sleigh beds and casual $6,000 Coco Chanel Bearbricks and then Teen Vogue would jump in with the old “okay, you’re probably going, “okay, is this like a Noxema commercial or what? But seriously [she] actually has a way normal life for a teenage girl”. It sold me aspirational media consumption in a way normal Vogue didn’t, because it targeted those specific class insecurities in a way I didn’t fully understand yet. I thought of it as a feeder magazine into ‘older’ Condé Nast publications.
Now you can conceivably live like a celebrity, but you could never live like the kid of a designer and an award winning director in a brownstone. Sea of Shoes being invited to debut at the Crillon Ball in Chanel couture was a particularly painful experience.