• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    In 40 years, correcting course will be even harder than it is today. Climate change is a compounding problem. Once the ice sheets are gone, they’re not coming back in any time scale we can imagine.

    raise kids resilient enough to face those challenges and brave enough to tackle them.

    Just kicking the can down the road, like the generations before us. I’m imagining the Lion King scene, except instead of showing Simba a bountiful wilderness to inherent, it’s a scene full of trash under a burning sky.

    “Everything the light touches will be yours to fix. Good luck.”

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      My assumption is if you’re rasing kids to take on those challeneges, you aren’t one of the can kickers. Global problems take near global effort. Its not like “well son we tried nothing and now its on you.” Its more like “here son become educated on whats happening, these are the things we’ve done individually to try to make a change and have a more sustainable mindset, now grab that brick and your picket sign theres a protest this morning.”

      Again the alternative is just giving up.