I thought some here might like to hear what Jane Goodall is focusing on with her current work of roots and shoots. The children should have a say in our future and we should be listening.
Today, youth are inspired by Tik Tok influencers who excel at fancy patterns in the foam of your latte or cowering in fear as “Chicken Little” rants about how the world is going to end tomorrow because of the doubters. So they see options as live hard for today, taking drugs to mask reality and kill the pain, or suicide. They see the best way to effect change is to block traffic so the producers have can’t supply the needs of society. Then if that doesn’t get attention, throw tomato soup on museum art, stage a temper tantrum in public, shout down dissenting opinion, smash and grab under $997 in merchandise, or wear Che Guevara T-shirts and say Fidel Castro was a visionary.
Like I said before, solve the energy crisis by not driving, turn off air conditioning, stop heating your home, and eat more salads with dried seasoned bugs. Not many other contributors have endorsed that.
Goodall may be onto something. Get the youth to model apes rather than act like uncontrolled youth. I already model the social characteristics of an ape and my hair is adapting by falling out from global warming. I thought this thread died?
It seems the youth you seem to know are a lot different than the ones I know. Indeed, you expose what Jane does we can change what we are doing as individuals and it does count.
To quote her from the article.
“But what people have to understand is when it’s 2 million, 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion, all taking small actions to make the world a better place, that is changing the world. What matters is people understanding that as an individual, what they do makes a difference. Not because it’s just them, but because they are not alone.”
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No one has his finger on the pulse of youth culture like a 72 year old on a paddling forum.
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Unless you interact with them.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in parts per million (ppm) for the past 800,000 years based on ice-core data (light purple line) compared to 2022 concentration (bright purple dot). The peaks and valleys in the line show ice ages (low CO2) and warmer interglacials (higher CO2). Throughout that time, CO2 was never higher than 300 ppm (light purple dot, between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago). The increase over the last 60 years is 100 times faster than previous natural increases. In fact, on the geologic time scale, the increase from the end of the last ice age to the present (dashed purple line) looks virtually instantaneous. Graph by NOAA Climate.gov based on data from Lüthi, et al., 2008, via NOAA NCEI Paleoclimatology Program.
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Look like a consistent pattern to me. When it dripa off, the bunny huggers will pat themselves on the back and shout what a great job they did in saving the world.