Oh no, they're not just going to let it happen. They'll actively stop us from solving it.

...and oligarchy, and fascism, and income inequality, and decreasing life expectancy, and increasing infant mortality, and more wars, and huge amounts of debt, and job loss, and...

A teacher showed us the documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the real truth I learned from that, is that the majority of adults are irresponsible crybabies.

Boomer: "Climate change will be your burden to suffer through".

Gen Z: "It's not fair. You got a full life of profligacy before the effects were even noticeable. I get none of the material wealth and I'm going to have to live my whole long life suffering increasing effects of it."

Boomer: "Not so long."

Yep. And your generation will do the same, and it will go on like this until it can't be ignored anymore, because that's what humans do, whatever the age.

narrator: yes, yes they did.

Looking at this more benevolently, the teacher might be wishing that this kid's generation will end up being more conscious and willing to act than his own.

This comic is TERRORISM according to Trump's Republican Party!

Yes.

... next question?

They said that to me when I was a kid... and I was born in the 80s.

I remember a similar comment made by one my highschool teachers. Because I was such a try-hard cringe edge lord I said something like "if my generation got rid of your generation, then we've solved that problem".

It's a global issue and America may be taking steps back, but the rest of the world is taking steps forward at least.

Stop being a climate change doomer

Stupid generations war. As stupid as men vs women, religion vs religion etc. It should be smart people vs stupid greedy sociopaths

Humanity doesn't do shit unless the problem is holding the door open with a foot stuck between the door. Then the rest of humanity who the problem hasn't gotten to yet will point and laugh at the person experiencing the problem because reasons. At that point nobody will be too eager to jump and help, lest their door get stuck too by the problem.

The problem is Capitalism.

What's a middle school teacher supposed to do about it? There's little to nothing we can do at the personal level beyond reducing our personal tiny footprint.

I want to hear what he thinks his generation's problem to solve was.

funny thing is, this was true 40 years ago, and it's true today.

I was thinking like this when I decided to go into the field, like "we can't just doom the next generation and peace out", now i'm deep in it at the highest level and i'm like "ooh that's why.."

Do you think if we had lifespan in the centuries we'd have a different perspective?