Song: Wilco "You Never Know"
"Come on, children, you’re acting like children
"Every generation thinks it’s the end of the world"
(Yes, repeated)
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| The base of Upper Yosemite Falls |
As with the earlier blog post "Climate activists are to blame for some of the suffering caused by climate change," "Greta Thunberg’s misery is the result of child abuse" is also a chapter in Losing My Religions.
I was thinking about this when I came across Kevin Drum's recent post, "Why has teen mental health fallen off a cliff recently?" Reading the comments backs up my contention - (many) kids are depressed and anxious because loads of liberals crying that the sky is falling, that we're making the planet "uninhabitable."
<sigh>
Reminds me of this story:
In 2012, our kid started at Pomona College, one of the top schools in the world. In a class that first term, they showed their class Hans Rosling’s “Best Statistics You’ve Never Seen.” (Here's an hour with him talking about population, with the bottom line "Don't Panic.") A bunch of classmates tried to debate Hans' conclusion by arguing about log scale and the like; my memory is that one classmate just straight-up said it wasn’t true.
And it has only gotten worse - much worse - since then.
PS: Hannah Ritchie, one of the most important researchers writing today:
Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change
Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change, we must move past doomsday scenarios.
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