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"Appreciate" is, perhaps, not the right word. Maybe "worry"? Younger generations grew up on a message of climate change and it can be disconcerting to walk int
by cbhl 4y ago
"Appreciate" is, perhaps, not the right word. Maybe "worry"?
Younger generations grew up on a message of climate change and it can be disconcerting to walk into a grocery store and find the entire produce department to be a geography lesson. This from Peru, that from Mexico, the other from Alaska, all flown and trucked in on a cold chain straight from some far-away monoculture farm.
If anything I suspect the increased supply chain insecurity (2020 through today) will help a lot of younger folks (unfortunately) develop an appreciation for the marvel of megamarts' supply chains.
- baisq 4y agoThere are some who are specialised in finding any possible excuse to bring up global warming in every thread. Can't you see that the majority of people don't care? Leave us alone already.
- jagger27 4y agoYep we’re fucked.
- fleetwoodsnack 4y agoI want you to know you’re very much alone and only becoming more-so in this disposition.
- baisq 4y agoIf I were alone in my not-caring stance, there wouldn't be a problem to begin with. :-)
- fleetwoodsnack 4y ago> Leave us alone already. This is the context in which that term is being used.
- bongoman37 4y ago
- bradleyjg 4y agoYounger generations are filled with self righteous tiresome scolds. I don’t know where we went wrong.
- muro 4y agoMaybe by underpaying teachers and getting a lot of weird ones as result?
- xyzzyz 4y agoTeachers are paid more today than they have ever been.
- sosull 4y agoThey are oversensitive for sure. But the true mystery is why we, who know better, can’t toughen ourselves up and get over it.
- fleetwoodsnack 4y agoYes and you’re the enlightened wizard lmao
- eli_gottlieb 4y agoWhen the economy crashed, you told everyone it was a result of their culture and lifestyle choices rather than because of Wall Street. These idiot kids believed you.
- InefficientRed 4y agoWhere is the scold in the post to which you're replying? Deglobalization of agriculture -- as a downstream result of trade policy, political instability, shifting weather patterns, or some combination thereof -- isn't exactly hard to imagine. Or even hypothetical! See: East Africa, right now: drought at home + major trading partner at war = starvation. Looking at the shelves of a grocery store and thinking "the set of social and physical conditions required to make this possible might not be stable throughout my lifetime" is not "scolding". Hell, it's not even unreasonable, especially given that the very premise of the thread is that this is all quite new to begin with...