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Please consider this. As a parent of a teenager I know a fair number of teenagers are crushed by fears of what climate change will do. It's a horrific burden,
by fwungy 3y ago
Please consider this. As a parent of a teenager I know a fair number of teenagers are crushed by fears of what climate change will do.
It's a horrific burden, it will crush a child's soul. We can make the environment cleaner with our technology, but changing the weather to prevent climate shifts that occur on a geological time scale and involve a nuclear furnace of a scale beyond our wildest imagination is not within our control.
Teaching your children that all the beauty of the planet is going to die because "people are bad and can't get their shit together" is a completely fucked parenting strategy and a horrible, awful, thing to do to children.
Even if it's true it's much kinder to let them live out this normally happy time of their life in blissful ignorance.
Kindness is what life is about.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI don't think it would be possible to control the child's access to information such that you can prevent them from learning about global warming, though that does seem like the sort of thing insular religious communities try to achieve with some success.
- fwungy 3y agoYou can talk to them. It is not kind to tell children there is no hope. Tell them there are always problems and we've always solved them. Tell them things are going to be ok. Let them take on the burndens of adulthood when they are psychologically mature.
- wrycoder 3y agoThey are being indoctrinated using computer projections of disaster. It's a total travesty. While local climate change is always with us, the reality of global change is lacking, and the projections have been pushed out year for year over the last forty years now.