Posted on 11/30/2021 7:58:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
With a younger generation increasingly focused on the problem of rising global temperatures, prominent environmental activist and author Bill McKibben is launching a new grassroots movement to mobilize older Americans to combat climate change and to work on related social justice issues.
McKibben, 60, has partnered with co-founders Akaya Windwood, a 65-year-old nonprofit consultant, and Vanessa Arcara, a millennial who worked at 350.org, to mobilize older Americans. Their new group, known as Third Act, is having a soft launch this week and a full-fledged rollout early next year.
“Third Act is for people like me — that is to say over the age of 60 — the baby boomers and the Silent Generation above them,” McKibben told Yahoo News. “It’s very clear now that young people are — not just on climate, but on other important issues like civil rights — doing what needs to be done. Older people need to not just assign the hardest problems on the planet to 17-year-olds as their homework.”
Urging governments, universities, corporations and other powerful institutions to change their ways in the face of climate change has become an increasingly common focus of activism in recent years, but as anyone at the recent large protests surrounding the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland can tell you, they tend to share a common trait — the crowds skew young, often very young.
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Older people are really sensitive to cold.
They will really appreciate some warming!
There is no doubt climate changes. It has changed continuously since the earth was created and the laws of nature were established. But it is not caused by mankind. Old folks know this, you kids need to sharpen up your smarts.
PS - In the sea north of Russia there are ten cargo ships stuck in ice today caused by an unexpected cold snap.
older people like the warming of the globe.
“...is launching a new grassroots movement to mobilize older Americans to combat climate change and to work on related social justice issues.”
Go ahead...we’ll just tell you to GFY.
Older generation’s (me) biggest concern are the assholes pushing this rubbish.
A little trip down memory lane—Newsweek, 1975—Global Cooling—hilarious fear porn.
https://iseethics.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/the-cooling-world-newsweek-april-28-1975.pdf
There was an episode of All in the Family in which Gloria kvetched about using hairspray as it was going to alter the atmosphere.
My wife went to the doctor today. She said a bunch of old people were sitting around bragging about their shots. My generation really needs to die off so younger generations have a chance.
Indoctrinate, threaten, pay them off, etc? No one cares about the climate boogey man they made up.
The last time I went to get bloodwork, the older ladies were talking about when to get their boosters. It’s sad.
Born in 1950. we”ve heard it all before. Relax, have a drink, and have fun watching the kids in the sand box : )
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