. The results were damning. More than half said “humanity was doomed”; three-quarters said the future was frightening; 55 percent said they would have less opportunities than their parents; 52 percent said family security would be threatened; and 39 percent were hesitant to have children as a result. These attitudes were consistent across countries rich and poor, big and small: from the United States and the United Kingdom to Brazil, the Philippines, India, and Nigeria.
One of the most recent and alarming examples of this doomsday mindset came from a group of young activists before the German elections. The group, who call themselves the Last Generation, went on hunger strike for almost a month. Several ended up in hospital. One told his parents and friends that they might never see him again. Another told a journalist that the hunger was “nothing compared to what we can expect when the climate crisis unleashes a famine here in Europe in 20 years.
Third, the pace of almost-real-time updates means we are bombarded with news of the latest disaster. These stories matter, but they don’t give us an accurate perspective on how the frequency and consequences of disasters are changing overall. In fact, they give us a false perspective. The data tells us a different story:because climate change has no impact on the severity of disasters. We’re just much more resilient to them.
Finally, I am skeptical that this mentality is effective in driving change. It often makes us feel like any effort is futile. That we’re already out of time. Anger can, for short periods of time, be useful in kickstarting action. But it sometimes comes at the cost of clear thinking on how we actually make progress. And once anger transitions into hopelessness, we struggle to achieve much at all. Hopelessness is no better than denial.
Instead of scaring and propagandizing the youth with climate change doom, we need to instill the positive adaptability of humans to whatever comes our way. Most of us just survived a worldwide pandemic.
The exaggeration strategy was well intentioned but it backfired. On all of us. Trust is hard to keep. Harder to regain once lost
What is generated, what is produced, what is consumed is delivered on what you, me, we demand. The narrative needs to turn internally as in living a reasonable life with reasonable consumption. It begins and ends with you, me as individuals.
No one’s saying they’ll die, just that life will suck absolute ass lmao
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I've got an idea. Tell kids the truth and stop burying everything behind spongebob and hot cheetos.
Aspiration is a motivation that sustains action. Purpose is much more powerful than fear for solutioning.
What kids need is there parents to stop voting for neolib candidates
It’s using climate rhetoric as hateful political speech that loses individuals.
Someone got that BS crystal ball on full blast...
Remember these? When did Hillary buy your trash publication and turn it into a Klan rally publication.
Why did Obama just buy this house if this was a real concern? Why not go ask him why he bought this house. Hello? Why did Obama buy this house?
Here is another for your klan rally. This is what you are doing right? By the way, when are Democrats going to start selling there ocean front property? When? Easy question if your newsroom wasnt a Hillary Front klan.
It’s too late to stop the change; time to open up the coffers to fix what humanity has broke. BTW, it’ll bankrupt the world.
One thing that guarantees resignation and despair is being consistently lied to.
But how will the state manipulate them without traumatizing them?
Usually I just tell the girls, don't get pregnant.
Texas should really rethink its leadership plans. Saturday May 7th 5:30pm Marble Falls, TX (about 40 mi from Austin) — 108 degrees. Ah... Spring is in the air.
Try a different lie. It’s been the same doomsday message for 40+ years.
When the world is ruined a lot of people are going to die of starvation. We're not screwing around. This is serious. I don't literally say 'You are going to die from climate change,' and if that's your point, then fine. But let's not softball how serious things are.
Nothing wrong with realistic doomsday scenarios that wake people up and spur action. The lack of such scenarios creates complacency. Which is why we're firmly on the path to eradicating all of the wildlife on the planet.
How wired is now/how it used to be
should we tell them that our future is in peril, and maybe, and only maybe if we manage to do something about it, they might actually have a future, probably spiced up with a lot of hunger, poverty, natural disasters... seriously, we must stop sugarcoating facts we don't like!
Uhh. They really just doing their own research.
just be honest with children for christ sake.
I'm telling my kid there's a small collective of people with money and power that feel above the rest of us and the only way the rest of us will survive is if there is an eradication of those undesirables.
Look Up!
Good, a published example of toxic optimism. 🙄
Just train them in armed combat at an early age. That will help
Is that the last step before quitting the project all together and just go extinct with a smile on our faces, glorious and scareless, proud and unchallenged? Is FEAR just to be used by proponents of destructive ideas eager to protect dividends & shareholders of polluting Inc. ?
It's time for me to stop following you. You are getting weird. My time is to precious to read your stupid things. WIRED was a serious magazine. What you published later on Twitter is rubish
They will die, like all of us if we fail to DELETE! the 0,001%
'it's time to stop being honest with our children about a problem we could have worked globally to solve, but were too selfish to try so now it'll be their problem, but let's let them run around and have fun and worry about it later!' Oh worrying about it later? Sounds familiar
“don’t look up”
Oh, yes. We are very clear with our children that while they may see ecological catastrophes causing widespread suffering and mass refuge migration, it's really their children and grandchildren who are fucked.
Ok, you're not gonna die from climate change...just the floods, fires, tsunamis, tornadoes and drought. Better?
Wut?
Lying to people doesn't help 'make progress' on the issues they need to be worried about.
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