Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times Says We Need More Cildren Or The Future Will Be A Nightmare
The future is already a nightmare. Children. It’s biology that says This Is Good. But climate change puts pressure on things like water systems. It will be too hot for water to properly cool, if you look at water as a whole, on an industrial scale, we will pump up more and more in our desperate need for water because our aquifers are already sucking up so much, they are dangerously low now, not in the burning future. You need water to make cement. To cool your tech. You need water pumped up hard for agriculture where what we grow turns into fried poison anyway. You need water to make plastics. You need huge amounts of water to grow almonds. You need water for cattle. You need water for slaughterhouses. You need enormous amounts of water to make cars. You need water to make electricity and grids. You need water to fight disease. Bacteria. Fungus. Viruses. You cannot have a culture that has absolutely no water. A lot of it turns to steam and drifts away, power plants make steam, dissipated. That’s just water. We are genetically engineered to feel happiness when we see a baby. New fathers feel an almost psychic mystery to stare at, a mother nursing. That great parenting moment, like walking, a behavior necessary for Homo sapiens to join the chase, is biological to everyone. We would have disappeared thousands of years ago, but we have a skeletal system that holds us together when we relax our vigilance. The future is bone dry. Extinction does not permit a wholesale strangulation by any species who needs more and more.