Oh no, they're not just going to let it happen. They'll actively stop us from solving it.
"Sorry kid, I need my 9% returns on these investment funds, and I don't care where that money comes from."
I bought this stock from a company called planter or something, it's going crazy lately
Well im not having solar panels near my town. They'll absorb all the sunlight and it'll be dark!
Windmills slow the planet down!!!
And they'll put more of us on the planet too, because it's so wonderful here.
But the windmills will kill all the birds (that there are none left of)!
...and oligarchy, and fascism, and income inequality, and decreasing life expectancy, and increasing infant mortality, and more wars, and huge amounts of debt, and job loss, and...
Short version: unchecked capitalism.
But I was told that capitalism checks itself using something called “market forces”.
Turns out "market forces" was just the heavy metal poisoning talking, they were just hallucinating magical economics.
Lead in gasoline and household products really fucked with some generations, hard.
Besides that it's smooth sailing.
... and microplastics, and resource scarcity, and MRSA, and infrastructure collapse, and social media addiction, and ...
"We didn't start the fire..." But you guys threw a bunch of petroleum and coal and tar sands on it
A teacher showed us the documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the real truth I learned from that, is that the majority of adults are irresponsible crybabies.
Everyone is just faking it. And those that don't, don't have the attention of those that listen.
Our safety manuals are written one disaster at a time, never before.
Boomer: "Climate change will be your burden to suffer through".
Gen Z: "It's not fair. You got a full life of profligacy before the effects were even noticeable. I get none of the material wealth and I'm going to have to live my whole long life suffering increasing effects of it."
Boomer: "Not so long."
Also boomers: "When are you having kids? I want grandchildren."
Told my mom I didn't want kids and she said, "Oh you'll change your mind"
I came out to my mom as gay and she said "well you can always adopt"
Then I started intense birth control treatments for my fucked up reproductive system and she was like, "you can still adopt"
Yeeted my uterus, cervix, and fallopian tubes just before my bday this summer and threw a fuckin party afterwards because now there is absolutely no way I can ever be a parent AND my reproductive system can't do whatever the fuck it wants cause it doesn't exist!
My mom finally accepted that this part of the family tree has ended after that. This while process happened over 18 years. I started telling her I didn't wanna be a parent when I was TEN.
Edit: I should prolly say that my mom isn't a boomer, but Gen X. She's surrounded constantly by boomers and other members of Gen X who act like boomers so she has picked up a lot of the traits. Practically demanding grandchildren was the worst boomer thing she's done so far, and I hope it stays that way.
Meanwhile. Most Boomers post adoption
They're not my real grandchildren.
How my grandmother was when my sister was adopted. Never treated her the same as the rest of the grandkids. Even when my sister helped care for the bitch 24/7 while she was living in our home dying of self-inflicted lung cancer.
I was not sad when my grandmother died, if you can tell.
Yep. And your generation will do the same, and it will go on like this until it can't be ignored anymore, because that's what humans do, whatever the age.
until it can’t be ignored anymore
At which point the fascist governments people have voted into power will keep on going as they were while murdering some convenient scapegoats, until mass scale industrialised human society collapses, never to recover because we used up all our resources.
Edit: I honestly think people don't quite understand that once all this bullshit collapses, there will probably never be another high tech civilisation on Earth again: all the easily extractable resources will have been used up, and the amount of energy required to extract more would be higher than what will be available once oil-based hydrocarbons have been more or less used up. Magic batteries that require a ton of resources won't fix the situation, and we have no large scale replacement for oil.
Looking at this more benevolently, the teacher might be wishing that this kid's generation will end up being more conscious and willing to act than his own.
Yah I don't think there's anything wrong with the message in the context it's presented. It's a fucking teacher. They are already doing not just the most they can, but also doing something far more effective than butting heads with a corporate-driven world at a time when environmentalism was seen as fringe and ludicrous by most people on Earth.
It would be different if it was some wealthy corporate CEO saying "I'm leaving this for the next generation to solve."
I remember a time that even a teacher saying this to a student would be considered inappropriate activism about a controversial topic.
This comic is TERRORISM according to Trump's Republican Party!
This comment is anticapitalist and therefore terrorist...
Lemmy is anticapitalist and therefore blocked by the Great American Firewall.
Dissidents will be reported.
Hopefully Trump will die of a stroke before before his third term
They said that to me when I was a kid... and I was born in the 80s.
And now they're in retirement.
Fuck them. They should have been in prison thirty years ago.
Yes.
... next question?
I remember a similar comment made by one my highschool teachers. Because I was such a try-hard cringe edge lord I said something like "if my generation got rid of your generation, then we've solved that problem".
Stupid generations war. As stupid as men vs women, religion vs religion etc. It should be smart people vs stupid greedy sociopaths
Humanity doesn't do shit unless the problem is holding the door open with a foot stuck between the door. Then the rest of humanity who the problem hasn't gotten to yet will point and laugh at the person experiencing the problem because reasons. At that point nobody will be too eager to jump and help, lest their door get stuck too by the problem.
I want to hear what he thinks his generation's problem to solve was.
Too much extra money and not enough beach houses to spend it all!
What's a middle school teacher supposed to do about it? There's little to nothing we can do at the personal level beyond reducing our personal tiny footprint.
funny thing is, this was true 40 years ago, and it's true today.
Do you think if we had lifespan in the centuries we'd have a different perspective?
The 2001 game Arcanum (a steam punk fanatsy hybrid) had that perspective. You had a world based in late Victorian industrialization and you had elves and dwarves and stuff... but those same dwarves and elves had VERY different views on technology. This is because they live for centuries while humans just decades. They make it clear that the two longer living races often approach technology (elves hate it btw, dwarves like it but are cautious) with caution specifically because they can see the effects of their shit from a hundred years from now while humans simply cannot.
I was thinking like this when I decided to go into the field, like "we can't just doom the next generation and peace out", now i'm deep in it at the highest level and i'm like "ooh that's why.."
The problem is, there are egotistical maniacs with nukes trying to enslave society for the benefit of the 1% or to satisfy their own ideals while sacrificing everybody else's needs/safety. If they decide to nuke everything, there won't be a world left to protect against even this.
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