And here in Utah we’re having sunshine all over the place, which is odd for us this time of year. In fact it will be mid-50s this week and we may get rain, but no snow this year for Christmas (which I’m fine with). The sun is coming out again today and it feels like it’s mid-August, not December! I love the warm weather and am not a ski person, so I happen to love it - but it is so WEIRD!
I’m not suggesting nothing is happening. I’m just saying there’s a huge gap between ‘it’s way too warm for this time of year than it used to be’ and ‘children of this generation won’t grow up.’
There is, and it is hyperbolic to suggest kids today won’t grow up. They will grow up. I mean in the 60s we all thought we’d be destroyed by atomic bombs so it was the same with people making dire predictions back then. And yet, we did grow up. The problems just came along with us. Some of them are worse than back then, but kids will still have to grow up dealing with them.
I mean in the 60s we all thought we’d be destroyed by atomic bombs
Which wasn’t something that was guaranteed to happen. You had a reasonable hope that political interaction would make that unnecessary, which is what ended up happening.
We are 100% guaranteed to face climate catastrophe and can no longer prevent it, only attempt to handle and contain it when it inevitably crosses the line of survivability, and even that is looking unlikely these days. These things are not the same.
Actually as a regular dumb kid, I didn’t really give the whole atomic destruction threat that much attention. I assumed I’d grow up and things would work out, which they kind of did. But you’re right about climate catastrophe, we can’t really stop what has already grown into a huge problem. But maybe we can do more to keep it from getting even worse. Only people shouldn’t do nothing on the belief that they’ll never “have to grow up and face it.” They will grow up, and they will have to face it and more besides.
And here in Utah we’re having sunshine all over the place, which is odd for us this time of year. In fact it will be mid-50s this week and we may get rain, but no snow this year for Christmas (which I’m fine with). The sun is coming out again today and it feels like it’s mid-August, not December! I love the warm weather and am not a ski person, so I happen to love it - but it is so WEIRD!
I’m not suggesting nothing is happening. I’m just saying there’s a huge gap between ‘it’s way too warm for this time of year than it used to be’ and ‘children of this generation won’t grow up.’
There is, and it is hyperbolic to suggest kids today won’t grow up. They will grow up. I mean in the 60s we all thought we’d be destroyed by atomic bombs so it was the same with people making dire predictions back then. And yet, we did grow up. The problems just came along with us. Some of them are worse than back then, but kids will still have to grow up dealing with them.
Which wasn’t something that was guaranteed to happen. You had a reasonable hope that political interaction would make that unnecessary, which is what ended up happening.
We are 100% guaranteed to face climate catastrophe and can no longer prevent it, only attempt to handle and contain it when it inevitably crosses the line of survivability, and even that is looking unlikely these days. These things are not the same.
Actually as a regular dumb kid, I didn’t really give the whole atomic destruction threat that much attention. I assumed I’d grow up and things would work out, which they kind of did. But you’re right about climate catastrophe, we can’t really stop what has already grown into a huge problem. But maybe we can do more to keep it from getting even worse. Only people shouldn’t do nothing on the belief that they’ll never “have to grow up and face it.” They will grow up, and they will have to face it and more besides.