Humanity doesn't do shit unless the problem is holding the door open with a foot stuck between the door. Then the rest of humanity who the problem hasn't gotten to yet will point and laugh at the person experiencing the problem because reasons. At that point nobody will be too eager to jump and help, lest their door get stuck too by the problem.
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What's a middle school teacher supposed to do about it? There's little to nothing we can do at the personal level beyond reducing our personal tiny footprint.
Whatβs a middle school teacher supposed to do about it?
Join an organisation that does something about it and teach all children about that organisation.
So climate change will be their generation's problem, just like in the comic? I feel like most of the replies to me are just proving the teacher right.
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Teach kids about it, like the artist's did
Isn't the concept of the comic that it isn't enough?
I think the point of the comic is that it is really depressing to hear this as a kid, in ways the teacher doesn't understand.
I was an environmental educator for a while and part time activist in college but I gave up.
It really seems like an intractable problem. But I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future novel for a speculative fiction / near future grappling with how society might respond to a warming world.
Spoiler: it starts with a heat-wave natural disaster which radicalizes India into a rogue state, which then does geoengineering on its own, but this isn't enough by itself.
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The problem is, there are egotistical maniacs with nukes trying to enslave society for the benefit of the 1% or to satisfy their own ideals while sacrificing everybody else's needs/safety. If they decide to nuke everything, there won't be a world left to protect against even this.
The political process and how to change it in a meaningful and lasting way without risking tyranny is almost always the problem.
The political process and how to change it in a meaningful and lasting way without risking ~~tyranny~~ profits of the capital class is almost always the problem.
Ftfy.
Uh oooohhhhh! Fascism!
Yes... But only because we have bills to pay... Also, fuck you