Do only older people think this is true, or does the younger generation believe this too?

[Daniela1982]

Take a read. What do you say?

Yay!

Nay!

Bite me!

Your valued? opinion here.

[Surely]

I applaud your work! Would be interesting to do a deep dive into the lifestyle of the climate change people’s lifestyles.
These people feel that electricity is the savior of us all. But they must think that electricity just comes out of the receptacle on the wall. Kind of like milk comes from the store shelves!
The possibility of terrorist attacking the outdated power grid doesn’t ever get mentioned. Currently there are only a few ways to make electricity and they all pollute at one time in the generation of electricity.
Coal is still the major source of electricity.
But it pollutes when it is mined and when it is burned.
Natural Gas pollutes when extracted and when it is burned.
Solar pollutes when the minerals are mined and when they are no longer effective and need to be removed from service.
Electric Vehicles use rare earth minerals. Which totally tear up the earth when they are mined. Plus what is going to be done with the batteries when they are used up?
So instead of making these things ourselves. Were we can control the pollution and damage to the earth. We will buy the finished products from China. Who doesn’t give a crap about the environment and say “What a great job we are doing to save the planet!”
FYI. China has more coal fired power plants and building even more than many countries added together!

[Massageman]

So true about the coal-fired plants in China. Society as an entity must consider the multiple facets that go into each energy source, if they want to come anywhere even close to "total cost" of those sources. Like you, I'm SO tired of hearing that solar power is "free" and/or "100% clean" or "non-polluting". Bull! Solar cells need rare earths, advanced dopants, replacement after 5 years or so, metal and glass casings, etc. Lithium batteries? Lithium from mines with their umpteen thousand diesel-powered mining tools and conveyances, or using about a half a billion gallons of water per ton of lithium in "brine mines". And off course, they need their heavy-duty casings and yet they are STILL exploding even before their expected 7-8 year life expectancy when they must be dealt with, as you mentioned. So let's not forget to add in all those factors. We just need to better fit the source to the need. Electric vehicles? Yes, sort of- BUT- only a small booster motor (run off of a couple of conventional car batteries ) for coming off of a stop, then 100% gasoline engine once up to speed. ( I get 50 mpg when only on the freeway in my conventional car. )

[Daniela1982]

Tell Bonehead Biden that.

[Effably]

Attacking schoolkids for what you perceive as a flawed education when it is you, not they, that have the right to vote and change things seems beyond moronic.

I am sure more older people would believe this narrative, and none of the ones that genuinely care would. I really don't think many older people would ever fall for this.

It also paints a misleading image of kids being spoiled or failing when the average educational level of a kid today is miles beyond what it used to be. For comparison the average person 100 years ago if moved to our present future would be deemed mentally challenged. To a lesser extent this also applies to every past generation. More gadgets is technology, not kids fault.

My gripe remains that attacking people without influence to cause change for the world you created is dumb and anyone who thinks it is up to kids and teens instead of their adult behinds are sorely misguided.

[Jersey2]

She isn’t talking about 100 years ago. Baby Boomer’s class rooms had windows that opened which was the the “air conditioning”. Clothes, books, bikes were all re-used. The number of home appliances was a lot fewer, maybe one lower power computer, majority of people were a proper weight as the consumed less and walked or biked many places.

[Daniela1982]

@Jersey2 Very good observations. And all true. I doubt many kids can do math without a calculator today.

[Effably]

100 years was for dramatic effect as normal and mentally retarded is a strong line. As I said it still applies 25 years ago too, just it would be a good student being highly average rather than outright needing special aid. An A 25 years ago would be a B today.

Your observation that technology has moved forward is of course accurate. It has. And so we use it more. Can't argue with it. It is one more facet of skills young people have to acquire.

The actual expenditure per median household on their children has shrunk. Most kids are, shockingly enough, spoiled less and not more.

Weight is absolutely a growing issue and has been for a long time. It is again, not something any reasonable adult would blame children for. It is a product of the society we have and are creating. It is also up to us adults to provide the solutions. If we want more exercise we can double the exercise in school and encourage sports. If we want better diets, we can make better food and demand educational institutions do the same.

If we consider math with no calculator to be of great importance we can focus more on it - and if we do the kids of today will shame any previous generation by their aptitude, my generation included. It is not in line with reality, work, or what is expected of them as they become adults but it remains our collective choice on how to teach math. We have a say. 12 year old Kim does not. Blaming the 12 year old is still insane. Surely we can agree on that? Some adult wanting to vent instead of fix things does not alter reality.

[Daniela1982]

FFS! Don't you know humor when you see it? Are you actually this fucking dumb?

[Blackcupcake]

part of it could be true, but many things there, the younger generation can't really control... we don't "require" air conditioning in classrooms and just because we ask teachers to turn it off, they won't because they don't control that either. when I was in elementary school, we had limited amounts of computers that students had to share between each other, and with time, they did bring in more and more, but again, none of it was under our control because we never knew those changes were being made, it was decided by the adults at the time which now would be the "older" generation.
Also in today's society, at least where I live, both old and young people consume electronics equally. so, it would be everyone's responsibility to try and make better choices if they care for climate change.

[Daniela1982]

Climate change corrections will never take place. Countries economies depend on their being able to pollute our planet.

[gothbxtch]

god, whoever wrote this must be insufferable.

[gothbxtch]

thank you!

[Willlovewinintheend]

Life is actually worse for the average school kid. Their parents throw an tablet in their face and expect them to learn the ABC's with little to no human interaction. All this technology is there to make us stupider. Some people cannot even spell without spell check and chat GPT is going to make it even worse.

You teach your kids the ABC's by writing it down and showing them. The tablets and the screens are destroying their social skills and human interactions. They sit front of a computer all day at school and sit on their tablet all day at home. The public schools look like a jail with yard and everything. The police rush the kids home you can't hang out outside anymore.

[Daniela1982]

What I see is kids walking home from school with their noses in their phones and never looking up to enjoy the scenery. They are on tablets at the dinner table, playing video games, and not even going outside to play. Their social skills relies on computers, tablets, phones, and social media. It is actually sad.

[Willlovewinintheend]

Yes, and we are all chronically stressed.

[Daniela1982]

At 107, your stressed days were over 20 years ago. 😂😅🤣😜

[Willlovewinintheend]

No I am 29 lol I just put my age at 1917 or something silly lol.

[Daniela1982]

You can ask G@G to change your birth date. You can't change it yourself but they can.

[Massageman]

Yes, I believe! The kids are too close to the problem to even perceive it as "a problem". Wait until they are 40-50 and they'll have the same regrets. We know a (now-retired) grade school teacher who was forced into curriculum means when the governmentally-run schools dumped the books, had to get computers and pads, gave up on handwriting and printing. But she and many others keep on teaching printing and handwriting, math tables, spelling (not "found spelling"), etc. and managed to wrap them into the governmental sham, er, shell of an education!

[DextroShade]

The problem I have with these fucking climate activists is that they expect regular working people to shoulder all the sacrifices, such as getting rid of cars and beef, without any regard to the effects on their lives while ignoring factories and coal-fired power plants in Asia and Africa, because any criticism of non-white countries is racist apparently. Also, they are opposed to replacing fossil fuel power plants with nuclear, which is just insane because it is currently the best and most reliable carbon-free energy available.

[Astarlessnightsky]

You will always find anykind of people who agree with anykind of statement.
There is always a small minority who agrees.

[Daniela1982]

I disagree ha ha

[TallAnon]

Seems pretty ignorant to me.
We want every generation to have it better than the previous. That's why we invent things for them.

When it comes to climate change, the amount of pollution that comes from an AC compared to coal mines is laughable. If people are trying to fight climate change, that's a good thing. But that likely involves war with countries that do not care. Unless we are prepared to go to war with China, most of this conversation is pointless.

[Likes2drive]

Probably mostly older people will think that

[Juxtapose]

Oh it is definitely true!

[Sparkie460]

Yes I believe us older people feel like this

[exitseven]

I feel that this is true because it is.

[Fuentes]

Old folks had a better economy

[Jamie05rhs]

I agree with this.