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Clickbait title. I don’t plan to be living over the next few centuries or millennia. There are plenty of reasons to not buy a beach house but this ain’t one of them.
I think that's kind of a tongue in cheek joke.
Regular people don't respect the actual issue at hand(like yourself a little) trying to portray it as relevant or something they can understand is important for scientists to do.
Unfortunately science and the truth are worthless if morons don't understand them.
Only if we let them stay in power...
OTOH, you've yet to encounter any conclusive evidence that you're mortal.
Honestly, I'm 195cm so in all likelihood I'm mortal than most people on average
Well, tall people have it harder with pumping blood, so you might be mortaller.
It's hard to read this without hearing a "I got mine, so f everyone after me" in it. When you talk about this with your friends, maybe consider rephrasing it?
I think if the title said something like "cities of the world could flood in the next century" rather than "don't buy a beach house", you would have a point. But that's not the case here.
These are the same people who complain endlessly about the sorry state the baby-boomers left America in.
Thank you for phrasing that well
I gave a friend who said something like this and I didn’t find the words to respond. Anyway, he moved to Florida near the shore so asked if he was worried about insurance, flooding, or even being able to sell the house if sea levels rise too much. He replied that he looked at the flood and storm projections for his expected remaining life and decided he was ok. Since he has no descendants, he doesn’t care if the house loses value or it becomes uninsurable
When we stopped caring about our communities, we stopped caring about being a part of something bigger and capitalism has taught us all to just sit and stew in our own depression and our own emotions. Boomer generation 2.0.
Agreed with everything except boomer generation 2.0. The younger generations DO care, but we're powerless thanks to the boomers who cannot give up control to the younger generations.
Completely different attitudes, completely different causes.
I'll compromise and say it's a little of column A and a little of column B.
It's true the Boomer boomers took away a LOT of the bedrock of modern democracy, capping off with the reign of Reagan and the whole greedonomics of the 80's.
But the younger generation has only been led to believe they're powerless, it's just that the actions they would need to take up at this point have become massively uncomfortable and the corporate wing of our federal government has had free reign to spill comfort all over us every day. We are a manipulated population.
It's really hard to mount organized, democratic resistance and grassroots community action when you're going to face massive amounts of anonymous hate, threats and backlash from even friends and family for championing... checks notes ...clean water and medical care, while alternatively you can retreat to Discord where you have a polycule of various other people who feel too deeply about the world that they have chosen escapism and fantasy and air conditioning and a sheltered world where nobody is going to trample their feelings.
Not saying there aren't principled fighters out there, it's just that it's much, much harder to get the general, scrolling public to pay attention when everyone just wants to scroll their feeds and check out after working 18-hour shifts to stay alive.
This isn't an insurmountable problem but we would need enough people to suddenly feel uncomfortable enough to set aside their daily discomforts and start organizing for a better tomorrow, but the internet has a way of attacking you for wanting better things, so we also need to do something about the internet.