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Maybe I'm naive but...fuck man...this bit right here gives me some real genuine honest to gods hope for the future. Like young people are seriously looking around and going "Who the fuck do you think my enemy is old man? China? Fuck that shit...my enemy is the weather, the lack of drinkable water, the earth crumbling everywhere. I don't need a rifle. I need a shovel."
Even if we actually reversed course tomorrow on climate change: natural disasters are gonna keep ramping up....but Imagine a world where young people enlist and get trained and deployed to the aftermath of hurricanes and droughts and their mission is to rebuild reinforce infrastructure and get people to shelter and running water. Can you imagine such a world?
Just replace militaries with new civilian conservation corps. Imagine what could be done if even a fraction of the military's resources were used to construct and maintain infrastructure, respond to natural disasters, and generally build instead of bomb