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In reply to the discussion: Millenials skip elections because they are young. The rest is excuses. [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)We're inheriting a wasteland. The science says it's unavoidable. there is no magic button, no new cutting-edge techno-widget that will save us from that fact. We're fucked. before I can expect to die, i will see entire nations swallowed by the sea. I will see flash after flash of conflict as people migrate across increasingly obsolete borders, and fights break out over water resources. I will see farmlands become deserts and deserts become floodplains. Modernized nations will break their banks to scramble for walls and floodgates. Less fortunate nations will just flee. I'm likely to see malaria and yellow fever become a factor in United States health figures again, before I keel over. at least two more cities on the US coastline will be swamped by Category 6 hurricanes. On one coast or the other, now that pacific hurricanes are becoming a thing.
Nothing we can do will prevent this. Best we can hope for is to mitigate the losses our descendants will face.
Which is funny. We're the cusp generation. We're the one who can look forward and see the hellhole, and look backwards to see that it never had to be so bad. We're the ones who realize that our parents made the perfectly conscious decision to fuck our children over.
So we're in "mitigate' mode, at best. Well, we turn to the Democrats, who are running on pro-environment policy? ...No, they're crowing about their pro-coal records. They're backing fracking. they're selling off public land for oil exploration. They're wanting this gigantic pipeline zig-zagging across the country. They, like the generation that has fucked us over, want to squeeze every last drop out before they die. No matter if that leaves the rest of us with worse than nothing, of course. Immediate profit is the only consideration.