The key part of this is that they surveyed 16 to 25 year olds. This is not the typical age demographic, particularly at the lower end, who are prioritizing havi

The key part of this is that they surveyed 16 to 25 year olds. This is not the typical age demographic, particularly at the lower end, who are prioritizing having children anyway. If you've been on this Earth awhile you start to realize a few things. Here are two: 1. It's the nature of young people to think the world is going to Hell. Today it might be climate change. 50 years ago it was the Vietnam War. Make no mistake, these things matter but, in my experience, the younger of us almost always think things are far worse than they really are. Still, this is generally a positive as it's an agent for change; and 2. The older people also think the world is going to Hell but for different reasons: because it's changing. Older people get increasingly concerned with their legacy and fighting change, summarized nicely on Mad Men [1]. I have zero faith the world will come together and act altruistically on climate change or any other issue. You've seen ample evidence of this in the past 18 months where a significant portion of the population are willing to minorly inconvenience themselves (by wearing a mask and/or taking a vaccine with <1 in a million chance of a serious negative outcome) so they and other people won't die from what is now a preventable disease. And we expect these same people to pay the massive cost to fix climate change? There's literally no way. The only way climate change will be solved is if it becomes economic to do so. We'll replace fossil fuels with renewables when it's cheaper and not a moment before, as just one example. Circling back to the issue of worried young people: many people had children so someone would look after them when they're older. In the developed world, this is rapidly disappearing. Now what generally stops people is they simply can't afford it. Not big issues like climate change. I compare how cheaply I could live when I was in university and it's so much worse now. We're making living so expensive that at some point there'll be no one to hand all the accumulated wealth down to. [1]: https://twitter.com/madmenqts/status/739854907918946304?lang=en https://twitter.com/madmenqts/status/739854907918946304?lang...