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They said that to me when I was a kid… and I was born in the 80s.
And now they’re in retirement.
Fuck them. They should have been in prison thirty years ago.
What?
Those ones were right. We are solving it now, and we either finish solving it or our children will have to deal with resource depletion when their time to shine comes.
Either way, it’s not Global Warming that they will be solving.
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I remember a similar comment made by one my highschool teachers. Because I was such a try-hard cringe edge lord I said something like “if my generation got rid of your generation, then we’ve solved that problem”.
Amazing that you had enough knowledge to answer like that in the first place. Looking back on my school days, I was so uninformed about so many important things: climate, politics - you name it.
funny thing is, this was true 40 years ago, and it’s true today.
The problem is Capitalism.
It’s part of it, but not only that
Stupid generations war. As stupid as men vs women, religion vs religion etc. It should be smart people vs stupid greedy sociopaths
Class war is the only war that will get us out of this.
It won’t either. Class cold wars can get you some results, but hot wars are always damaging to everybody.
And simply blaming older people also hides the problem of global inequality and exploitation of the third world. Most elderly in my country only faced food insecurity and hyperinflation when younger, and their environmental impact for all the time they’re alive is smaller than the environmental impact of a current teenager in the usa.
I want to hear what he thinks his generation’s problem to solve was.
Too much extra money and not enough beach houses to spend it all!
High gasoline prices.
99% probability: Cold war/communism
Protesting a lot at age 20, then becoming a square.
Do you think if we had lifespan in the centuries we’d have a different perspective?
The 2001 game Arcanum (a steam punk fanatsy hybrid) had that perspective. You had a world based in late Victorian industrialization and you had elves and dwarves and stuff… but those same dwarves and elves had VERY different views on technology. This is because they live for centuries while humans just decades. They make it clear that the two longer living races often approach technology (elves hate it btw, dwarves like it but are cautious) with caution specifically because they can see the effects of their shit from a hundred years from now while humans simply cannot.
I believe it’s more a cultural thing. In a lot of places, people think in terms of a community, not individuals, and will plan things for the longer terms. But in american culture, people are much more selfish and short-sighted. Problem is that they have been shoving their culture in the entire world, and it makes it look like this is the default for all of humanity.
Not under capitalism. The wealthiest will do just fine in climate collapse and they’re planning for it. They don’t care about anything beyond the next fiscal quarter in terms of environment.
I was thinking like this when I decided to go into the field, like “we can’t just doom the next generation and peace out”, now i’m deep in it at the highest level and i’m like “ooh that’s why…”
We have a circus we gotta run out of town first
I love this art style so much.
When you’re young you experience the world, when you get older you keep the world working for the young to experience it, and when you’re old you wish you’d made it work better so you could’ve really experienced it.
Uh oooohhhhh! Fascism!
Yes.
Well, they are definitely making death more appealing every day. So there is that.
Laughs in veganism (and thus taking personal responsibility for changing, non-hypocrisy and non-virtue signalling and non-deflecting)
…among other things, literally virtue signaling that you’re not virtue signaling.
Oh no, they’re not just going to let it happen. They’ll actively stop us from solving it.
“Sorry kid, I need my 9% returns on these investment funds, and I don’t care where that money comes from.”
I don’t care where that money comes from.
Unless it’s renewable energy tech, then fuck it, those shitheads can rot in hell!
I bought this stock from a company called planter or something, it’s going crazy lately
Well im not having solar panels near my town. They’ll absorb all the sunlight and it’ll be dark!
Windmills slow the planet down!!!
But wouldn’t it be nice if there was more time in a day?
And they’ll put more of us on the planet too, because it’s so wonderful here.
But the windmills will kill all the birds (that there are none left of)!
Not real ones, anyway
Solving? There’s an undeniable solution that has been there as long as the problem has
I’m in favor of completely remove the humans. We should have the tech already.
Which is…?
There’s a pretty public list of who owns the most resources
Stop burning fossil fuels.
That would help, but definitely not stop climate change.
Sure, taking your foot off the accelerator doesn’t technically stop the car.
Either you ration things that warm the planet, or you find a way to cool it directly? Neither of these options can be done at a large enough scale.
Humans have never been good at constraining cultures that gorge on a limited buffet of resources.
Implementing climate control will be costly and is still controversial, especially proposed solutions that require polluting the stratosphere with chemicals.
I’m still optimistic about geoengineering research.
Of course, nobody will want to foot that bill until they’re staring the threat in the eyes.
