To be fair, this started with millennials. We've known we're fucked for many years now. But we didn't grow up with it the same way that these kids did. We thought we had a future for a little while.
I'm from 1980. I'm glad I don't have children. I hope I can avoid the water wars, but I'm not sure I'll choose to stay around long enough to see Hayley's Comet again. I don't think the collapse of global society (including, but not limited to the Internet) is eminent, but it does seem damn-near unavoidable: We need to act globally soon, and convincing/replacing current global leadership seems like it will take too long.
This is exactly an argument Kohei Saito makes in his book Degrowth - even if we know the odds are slim, do we not have a moral imperative to try while we still can?
Haha come on, I’m a millennial on the wrong side of 35, and climate change is just one of the things fueling my mental health crisis. SMH filthy casuals.
11 Comments
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 42 pts · 1y
people who have no future are depressed?!?
cerement@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 1y
people who’ve had their future ripped away from them, thrown out in the street, and repeatedly run over
Drusas@fedia.io · 17 pts · 1y
To be fair, this started with millennials. We've known we're fucked for many years now. But we didn't grow up with it the same way that these kids did. We thought we had a future for a little while.
bss03@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y
I'm from 1980. I'm glad I don't have children. I hope I can avoid the water wars, but I'm not sure I'll choose to stay around long enough to see Hayley's Comet again. I don't think the collapse of global society (including, but not limited to the Internet) is eminent, but it does seem damn-near unavoidable: We need to act globally soon, and convincing/replacing current global leadership seems like it will take too long.
CritFail@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
Not just adolescents.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 1y
yeah no shit. we owe them better than this. it's time we step up and fix the world
1984@lemmy.today · -5 pts · 1y
From our mobile phones? The truth is there is very little most of us can do.
ManualOverride@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
I'll take [action for slim chance of success] over [inaction for guaranteed failure] every time.
mycelium@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
This is exactly an argument Kohei Saito makes in his book Degrowth - even if we know the odds are slim, do we not have a moral imperative to try while we still can?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
Haha come on, I’m a millennial on the wrong side of 35, and climate change is just one of the things fueling my mental health crisis. SMH filthy casuals.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Give them a break, they're young ! You have 20 years of cynism over them
ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y