It's summer in Montreal. The ducks are taking a dip in the pond, the plants are in full bloom -- but for Aandrianna Jacob, it's no walk in the park. Like many others, she's worried about climate change.
Yes, things are tough now. Climate change is a very serious challenge ahead. I vote Green, ride a bike, etc.
All that being said, I’m probably older than most of you. I grew up during the cold war, when we sincerely believed we were at the brink of nuclear annihilation.
It didn’t happen.
I will spare you the countless doomsday headlines I’ve read in the news over the years. The hole in the ozone layer, the wars, the genocides, the natural disasters, the political churn.
The details don’t matter. The bottom line is that being afraid of the future and believing that we won’t be able to overcome what is ahead of us is nothing new. Yet, we prevail, like we have always done. People are much more resilient than they imagine. You can handle it and so can your children, and your children’s children.
The difference between the cold war and climate change is that the former could be stopped simply by not being a warmongering idiot. The latter, even if we stop being a nature-raping idiot species, is still going to fuck. us. up.
Also, a lot of people have died in wars, genocides, natural disasters, and political churn. As a survivor for whatever reason, I’m not really sure how valuable your insight is. There are a lot of dead children out there.
Yes, things are tough now. Climate change is a very serious challenge ahead. I vote Green, ride a bike, etc.
All that being said, I’m probably older than most of you. I grew up during the cold war, when we sincerely believed we were at the brink of nuclear annihilation.
It didn’t happen.
I will spare you the countless doomsday headlines I’ve read in the news over the years. The hole in the ozone layer, the wars, the genocides, the natural disasters, the political churn.
The details don’t matter. The bottom line is that being afraid of the future and believing that we won’t be able to overcome what is ahead of us is nothing new. Yet, we prevail, like we have always done. People are much more resilient than they imagine. You can handle it and so can your children, and your children’s children.
The difference between the cold war and climate change is that the former could be stopped simply by not being a warmongering idiot. The latter, even if we stop being a nature-raping idiot species, is still going to fuck. us. up.
Also, a lot of people have died in wars, genocides, natural disasters, and political churn. As a survivor for whatever reason, I’m not really sure how valuable your insight is. There are a lot of dead children out there.
Thank you for the perspective. I honestly never thought about things that way before. There’s not much we can do, so we do what we can.