Now we just need the septuagenarians and octogenarians to step down from power and retire.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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I don't care how old they are so long as they do the right thing. Being a good ancestor is a perfectly fine motivation.
The current group of old people in power are not doing the right things though. They either try to discredit the idea of climate change altogether, minimize its effects, pay lip service to it, or ignore it entirely.
Vote 'em all out.
I think about encoding that in my model - e.g. assume a 50 year time-lag between current science influencing young people in formative years, and such people gaining power with a gerontocracy, what does that imply for solving such issues (a fuzzy-control problem - bearing in mind cumulative emissions, ocean layers, and ice-melt -> answer not good ... ).
Actually we knew most of this science 30 years ago, and some politicians try hard, problem is other distractions.
i wonder where her story will go.
- burn out like a child star?
- lead a movement like MLK?
- arrested for conspiracy?