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See, these are the kids that are supposed to Save The Planet, but, Bidenflation is ruining that

Add Inflation to Reasons to Worry About Climate Change

A big frustration of writing about climate change is that it’s wildly difficult to get people to care about the subject unless they happen to be, say, unexpectedly choking on wildfire smoke hundreds of miles from the nearest wildfire or escaping a flooded basement after a random rainstorm turns biblical.

Well, I have issues in trying to care about it when the people who tell me it’s a crisis never act like it’s a crisis in their own lives, and tend to have oversized carbon footprints

The sense of failing to convey to your stovetop mates that you are all boiling alive was hammered home this week by a new survey showing young people — humanity’s hope for the future, supposedly — care more about inflation than they do about climate change. This in the middle of what will probably be the hottest year in human history, wracked with deadly floods, droughts, heat waves and wildfires.

On the one hand, this suggests “climate Cassandra” is a poor career choice. On the other, it makes total sense. Though my memories of young adulthood are hazy, one lingering sensation is relentless financial dread. And today’s youths have it far worse than I ever did. College, health-care and housing expenses have soared in recent decades, followed by food and other prices since the Covid pandemic. It’s tough to focus on the future of the climate when your stomach is grumbling and you’re not sure you can cover the rent.

Huh. So Mark Gongloff is saying that Biden’s utter mismanagement of the economy after the Chinese coronavirus damaged it is causing youts to care about things like food? Mark has Ideas, though

But the reality is that climate change and inflation are increasingly, inextricably linked. A hotter planet makes droughts, floods, heat waves and destructive storms more likely and more intense. Rainfall patterns change and diseases roam more widely. All of this in turn disrupts agriculture, construction, shipping, manufacturing and more. Natural disasters and rising sea levels will leave some parts of the country inhabitable only by the very wealthy, making affordable housing even more scarce. The pandemic’s inflationary supply-chain nightmares were just a preview of what may be in store.

And there you go: inflation is caused by ‘climate change’, so, if you give your money and freedom to government we can solve this. Cult.

Interestingly, for all the caterwauling about fossil fuels not many really care