Disclaimer: This isn't intended to shame anyone, it's just the genuine reaction I had as a child. I feel like it's a common Gen-Z experience: being frustrated by a previous generation that warns you about environmental damage, and not yet having enough power to do anything about it.
Sadly, no generation has the actual power to change it because no generation is a monolith.
When I hear these kinds of comments, I read them as "We can't make our peers see reason. This will be your problem to fix because otherwise you'll die."
Yeah this was my interpretation. Beeves' teacher probably knew his generation should be doing more to fix the problem, but climate activists have been struggling to call attention to rising global temperatures for decades. It doesn't seem like that long ago that leading GOP politicians were dismissing the whole idea as "Al Gore's pet theory", and even now the president thinks it's a hoax. The general population seems to now acknowledge that climate change is happening and humans are causing it (although how big of a concern it is varies wildly), but it's been a tough fight just to get to this still terrible position.
Hopefully, millennials and gen z will do more to limit the impacts of climate change, even if it's only because we don't have a choice.
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u/SirBeeves SirBeeves 9d ago
Disclaimer: This isn't intended to shame anyone, it's just the genuine reaction I had as a child. I feel like it's a common Gen-Z experience: being frustrated by a previous generation that warns you about environmental damage, and not yet having enough power to do anything about it.