Posted on 02/18/2022 8:47:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When I was about 15 years old, I started organizing around climate change, working with friends to organize teach-ins at high schools and middle schools around the region. At 18, I attended the United Nations Climate Conference in Peru in 2014, the meeting that preceded the Paris climate summit, where a landmark global agreement on climate change was signed. If I could go back in time, I would have never attended the conference — it aroused in me an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness and hopelessness that led me away from the climate movement for years. The huge jump in scale alongside the hyper-individual and competitive atmosphere of the conference caused me to lose any sense of individual efficacy or collective power.
There is no doubt that climate change will define our futures, regardless of actions taken in the coming years; action today will affect the degree of harm but not the fact that we have transitioned into a period in which our ecological systems are being irreparably transformed by human activity. Harm which — it is important to note — is caused disproportionately by a global minority: largely wealthy, largely white.
Recent years have seen many young people emerge as leaders of movements for social change, with young women of color taking the lead. The climate movement shows us that there is room to find collective power organizing in our communities. Improving access to civic engagement opportunities will not only strengthen our democracy but help address a growing mental health crisis.
(Excerpt) Read more at brennancenter.org ...
Constantly pushing the fake “climate emergency” is what is taking a toll on young people.
Harm which — it is important to note — is caused disproportionately by a global minority: largely wealthy, largely white.
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It’s whitey’s fault.
The inmates continue to run the asylum.
Whatever...
Global warming is killing me. If these Iowa Winters continue, I think I shall freeze to death!
The only thing climate change will define is how much they can get out of your pocket....for the scientific cause.
If they just killed all the white old folks, the young people would feel so much better...
;-)
There is no analysis in that article. Any who has written analysis papers can quickly see it is nothing but opinion and arguments through assertions.
In other words, propaganda. Statements like “There is no doubt that climate change will define our futures, regardless of actions taken in the coming years; “ are not analysis and if an analyst were to write anything like that it would get thrown back in their face.
Emelia sounds mentally ill.
It isn’t “climate change” that’s taking a toll on their mental health.
It’s schools, fake media, democRATS, movies, sports, and social media.
living through the 1970s and the rising tides of global warming and then a new ice aged and the transformation of cutting pollution to the inevitable man is bad for the environment to man is causing global warming, no climate change, no, everything bad for the earth, to total destruction in 12 years, now 11...
they have cried wolf too many times.
The best way to read articles like these is to replace “climate change” with “Unicorns”.
So—
“There is no doubt that Unicorns will define our futures, regardless of actions taken in the coming years.”
It’s doubtful that any young student knows or understands or is affected by “climate change”. The only climate they understand is the days of good weather when they can go out and play or go swimming, etc.
However, there is a climate of politics which is playing havoc with young people’s lives, such as the politically based mask mandates and forced Covid vaccinations.
Democrats invent crises as the need arises, and their BS won’t change the climate or any other thing.
If kids are worrying about “climate change,” it is because the left is frightening them with talk of the world coming to an end in five, six, eight, ten, or fifteen years, as they have been doing for the last forty years.
We’re all gonna die...with mental illness!
This is a psyops campaign on the youth. Along with the promotion of sexual perversion and insane racial theories our young people are having their futures destroyed.
No.
Government and media FEAR MONGERING about so-called “Climate change” is what’s taking its toll on people.
When abortion lovers tell you something is “for the children”, it’s not for the children. The radical liberal movement is all one big movement with a lot of moving parts.
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