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It's part of it, but not only that

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

And now they're in retirement.

Fuck them. They should have been in prison thirty years ago.

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.

Not under capitalism. The wealthiest will do just fine in climate collapse and they're planning for it. They don't care about anything beyond the next fiscal quarter in terms of environment.

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.

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.

And simply blaming older people also hides the problem of global inequality and exploitation of the third world. Most elderly in my country only faced food insecurity and hyperinflation when younger, and their environmental impact for all the time they're alive is smaller than the environmental impact of a current teenager in the usa.

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

Amazing that you had enough knowledge to answer like that in the first place. Looking back on my school days, I was so uninformed about so many important things: climate, politics - you name it.

Protesting a lot at age 20, then becoming a square.

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

High gasoline prices.

"WE ARE ALL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS" -CPAC 2022

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

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

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

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.