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"Sorry kid, I need my 9% returns on these investment funds, and I don't care where that money comes from."

Well im not having solar panels near my town. They'll absorb all the sunlight and it'll be dark!

Short version: unchecked capitalism.

Besides that it's smooth sailing.

Also boomers: "When are you having kids? I want grandchildren."

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.

They said that to me when I was a kid and I was born in the 60s.

It literally cannot be ignored anymore.

"You don't miss the water until the well runs dry" has never been a more true expression. People expect that if something is going wrong here'd be immediate and apparent consequence. It seems like a vast majority of people completely lack the skill of extended foresight, where one can look at a current situation and see how it can accumulate into a worse situation later.

A great example of this was my mom during COVID-19:

"All this pandemic talk is just nonsense. I'm not seeing people dying on the streets, now, am I?"

If the effects of climate change aren't immediately apparent with some big global disaster happening overnight, then it's not a big issue or simply not real.

If eating something that causes long term health risks doesn't immediately make you sick overnight then it's not a big issue or simply not real.

Yah I don't think there's anything wrong with the message in the context it's presented. It's a fucking teacher. They are already doing not just the most they can, but also doing something far more effective than butting heads with a corporate-driven world at a time when environmentalism was seen as fringe and ludicrous by most people on Earth.

It would be different if it was some wealthy corporate CEO saying "I'm leaving this for the next generation to solve."

I remember a time that even a teacher saying this to a student would be considered inappropriate activism about a controversial topic.

Class war is the only war that will get us out of this.

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.

Too much extra money and not enough beach houses to spend it all!

Even America is taking some steps forward in some odd ways.

Trump: “Alaskan refuge drilling is wide open! Drill, baby drill! Who wants first bid?”
Shell: “Ew, no. Literally no one wants that bad PR.”