Before we’re all doomed or something
Millenials must take on climate change before it’s too late
Discussions about climate change are often like an episode of “Lost†— a solution to one puzzle raises five more questions. If climate change is a proven trend, then what should be done? What should the government do? What should corporations do? And whose fault is it really?Â
It’s interesting that question “what changes in my own life?” Is not posed.
It is both odd and expected that we millennials don’t care more. Odd because theoretically we are the most likely to join political movements to encourage change (see President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan). Expected because adapting to changes, positive and negative, is what we’re good at.
And how are Millenials doing? Their unemployment and underemployment rates are staggeringly high. They’re saddle with tons of school loans debt with poor job “ladders of opportunity”. They’re moving back in with their parents at record rates. The last thing they need to be worrying about, except as a drunken bull session, is “climate change”.
