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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: I don't want kids because I don't believe in the future of our planet.

I don't think we will be able to save the environment from ourselves. I don't think it's responsible, fair or right to put children in this world, because there will continually be people, companies and nations that would rather have short term money, than work to do what is right. 

I already feel like we have inherited a natural world that is fucked. Not to speak of the global society, that is fraught with egoism and stupidity. We have developed way to far into something that I don't wanna pass on. I've been a part of global pollution as well, and I guess that will be my legacy.

I actually pinched a tear writing this out. :(

Edit: I'm about to go to work, but I will start responding in about 8 hours. Keep it coming!
gpt
I guess the simplest response is that if we all thought like you, our planet *would* have no future.  It's tantamount to just giving up.  How is denying future generations the right to exist at all more responsible, fair or right?  *They* might want to keep trying to make the world better.

Part of this is, yes, we've got some environmental problems to address.  Part of this too, though, is your perception of it.  You weren't around for life 400 years ago, or a thousand, or during the last ice age.  You talk of egoism and stupidity as if that was unique to our current condition.  It may look in the news like things are all going from bad to worse, but the world is more peaceful, prosperous, and productive now than it ever has been.

If you don't think the environment is salvageable, well... ok.  Not much to do about that other than to say that a lot of us--most of us--haven't nearly given up yet.