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When would have been a good time to bring children into the world? There has never been a perfect time and there never will be.

Billy Joel's 1989 song 'We didn't start the fire' addresses the idea that the past wasn't always better than the present.

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Of course there's never been a perfect time. Every time has its problems. But the ones we're facing now are greater than at any time in my life, and we're not only failing to address them, we seem to be intent on making them worse.

The world my children are inheriting is a substantially worse one that the world I inherited.

I would have been more worried if I lived through 1939-1945, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kids going duck and cover under their desk. Nuclear exchange seemed inevitable. And yet the cold war never went hot. The experts of the 1960s didn't see the Soviet Unions collapse in the 1990s coming. We may find the inevitability of climate apocalypse as inevitable as nuclear apocalypse with the Soviet Union turned out to be

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