> Imagine we had started taking climate change seriously in 1990 I don't want to completely derail this thought but I am a bit older than some of the crowd on

> Imagine we had started taking climate change seriously in 1990 I don't want to completely derail this thought but I am a bit older than some of the crowd on HN and I was in high school in the 90s so my perspective is a bit different I guess on this. Do Millennials think that Gen-X generation wasn't fighting against client change? I remember even further back to elementary school and just having a constant flow of ecological/environmental stuff thrown at us. It used to be deforestation, species extincition and the ozone layer ... but it was taken very seriously even then. I mean, I just looked at the Paris Agreement [1] Wikipedia and the "Lead Up" section mentions: The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit is one of the first international treaties on the topic. I remember one of the first conversations I had on "global warming" specifically and it was around 1996. But even before I had heard that specific term we were talking about losing large coastal regions due to rising sea levels. The rock band Tool released the album Ænema in 1996 and there is the constant refrain: "Learn to Swim". By the time Al Gore published "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006, I was feeling the topic was a bit played out, to be honest. At any rate, you may find yourself in 30 years faced with the same kind of attitude ... like people in 2050 saying "imagine people in 2023 actually took climate change seriously!" and you might then feel the same as I do. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement