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> The children have no future. The old have accumulated ownership of pretty much everything. This is in general a myth. If you look at millennials or gen-z, ow

> The children have no future. The old have accumulated ownership of pretty much everything. This is in general a myth. If you look at millennials or gen-z, ownership at their age isn't any different from the boomer generation. And it's still the best time to be born in. We can all agree that climate change is a problem to be solved, but "the old" can remember plenty of doomsday scenarios that never happened, including past predictions that global warming would destroy the world by year 2000. In the meantime, activists that prevent people from going to work, or that destroy property, are just jerks IMO.

GaggiX 3y ago
Yeah this is what I believe, I'm very young and I imagine that the parent post is talking about my generation but I cannot really stand with these people, they, for example, rally against nuclear energy, it just show how performative these protests are in reality, and how they do more harm than good. Also of course vandalizing properties has given them a certain reputation.
anigbrowl 3y ago
past predictions that global warming would destroy the world by year 2000 This is a bullshit conservative trope. I'm 53 and no such prediction was ever advanced as a basis for policymaking. Just because someone might have made such a hyperbolic prediction in a TV show or magazine doesn't mean it ever had widespread currency in the scientific or policy community. Please stop poisoning the well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
- bad_user 3y ago
  The world has a long history of bad predictions. Search for example for the predictions made with the advent of the first Earth Day, 1970. Some predictions were more accurate than others, which led to effective policies, so for example, thankfully, we still have an ozone layer and we haven't started a nuclear war yet. Not sure what "poisoning the well" is supposed to mean here. I was replying to someone that predicts some sort of violent revolution. For what, I can only guess.

GaggiX 3y ago

Yeah this is what I believe, I'm very young and I imagine that the parent post is talking about my generation but I cannot really stand with these people, they, for example, rally against nuclear energy, it just show how performative these protests are in reality, and how they do more harm than good. Also of course vandalizing properties has given them a certain reputation.

anigbrowl 3y ago

past predictions that global warming would destroy the world by year 2000 This is a bullshit conservative trope. I'm 53 and no such prediction was ever advanced as a basis for policymaking. Just because someone might have made such a hyperbolic prediction in a TV show or magazine doesn't mean it ever had widespread currency in the scientific or policy community. Please stop poisoning the well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

bad_user 3y ago
The world has a long history of bad predictions. Search for example for the predictions made with the advent of the first Earth Day, 1970. Some predictions were more accurate than others, which led to effective policies, so for example, thankfully, we still have an ozone layer and we haven't started a nuclear war yet. Not sure what "poisoning the well" is supposed to mean here. I was replying to someone that predicts some sort of violent revolution. For what, I can only guess.