Eminent climate scientist James Hansen looks to a generational shift in political leadership, but I'm not sure that will change much. The young people around me are for the most part acquisitive, politically and emotionally immature, and self-centred, while the environmentally aware are boomers and gen-x.
Youth is vastly overrated.
@hesgen Sadly, I see the same thing. Is it down to the power of advertisers, paid influencers, partisan news outlets, without a strong (i.e., well-funded) opposing, science-based narrative?
@sothach I dare say it's a combination of factors, including bad parenting, disconnect from the natural world, entitlement, overabundance, and much more besides. Capitalism is in my view one of the biggest drivers of dysfunctional behaviour, but that applies across the generations.
@hesgen @sothach Capitalism has its codependent, biploar opposite in Autocratic Communism, with a 'middle Socialism' equally suppressed by 'pure profit', with the likes of fossil fuels billionaires, their brainwashed shareholders that also hold political sway/office. Even educational systems highly sus (for the Gen Z'ingers) in their 'general education' complicity, in lieu of the specialized learning that keeps a myriad of 'aggression displacement' (insanity) at bay.
This is essentially why 'third world countries' are increasingly the better 'inverse proportion' option for #BaseloadPower and #SpecializedLearning #education.
In the generation of my kids I see the following problems that aggravate the above:
1. Blind trust in YT
2. Focus on emotions and subjective experience
3. Nobody verifies anything
4. Opposition or support is shallow, based on 2-3 above
As result we have a whole generation that completely misses the concept of nuance and is trivialized manipulated into polarized positions where you can only choose which of two tribal totems you want to defend.
You idiots have jumped the shark with this global warming bullshit and it's become way to easy to demonstrate the absurdity. You people, most recently, suggested that humans breathing was a contribution to climate change.
@hesgen As a Gen-Xer, I have grave doubts about some of my near contemporaries: the current Tory government and its acolytes in the media are pretty much all Gen X. 😱🤬