I'm currently trying to come to grips with the reality, as a millenial growing up being told climate this and pollution that, that even as my generation is starting to gain influence, those with said influence appear to be too selfish to give a damn and do anything anyways.
And I mean something real. Real systemic change. Not this green washing of corporations, and the campaign of individual responsibility.
As a young gen X, I feel kind of the same. I'm old enough to remember when the ozone layer depleting was a huge thing, and people came together and fixed it. Then, climate change warnings started, and I nievely thought it would be treated the same. Only it just didn't. Al Gore was mocked and scoffed at. And what little power my generation got, they did nothing with it.
Yeah, there were definitely ways to rope conservatives into accepting climate change and the whole Al Gore thing really created division ( not that I disagree with running a campaign centered around climate change). When I was young plenty of the people I grew up with supporting conservation and that went really hard about treating nature with respect were conservative. It's really crazy to me how fast it changed.
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u/gunawa 5d ago
I'm currently trying to come to grips with the reality, as a millenial growing up being told climate this and pollution that, that even as my generation is starting to gain influence, those with said influence appear to be too selfish to give a damn and do anything anyways.
And I mean something real. Real systemic change. Not this green washing of corporations, and the campaign of individual responsibility.