Isaac Asimov used to write that; I miss him.

He was one of the many people who warned about this calamity, but he died in 1992, still early enough that he could hope that we would do better.

"What can we tell our children?" is a question I want to ask people all the time, particularly all the car-driving, meat-eating, flying-many-times-a-year parents. "Mommy and Daddy's lifestyle means that you and your children's children's children must live in a degraded ecosystem for the rest of time."