Because youngsters have not had to listen to chicken little cries and predictions of doom over the last 30 years, none of which has ever happened.
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Winner! Remember when the population bomb was going to have us all starving by the 1980’s?
Holes in the ozone layer - we’re all going to die from skin cancer if we even walk outside for 10 minutes.
And don’t forget the “Coming Ice Age” predicted in the 70’s. Back then they didn’t call it settle science because we were too naive to question it at the time.
I also remember about 12-15 years ago seeing some graph showing that by 2015 or so there would literally be NO crude oil left to obtain.
... If only Khrushchev would have buried us from afar 50 years ago none of this worrying would have ever had to happen.
And according to Al Gore’s “Earth in the Balance”, Florida should be underwater now.