Climate Change and Millennials: The Future is in Our Hands - Scientific American Blog Network
Because we are doing so poorly to control this, the next generation must get (and is getting) involved now. Two new ways to visualize this have occurred to me:
(1) It is like, "Daddy! A fire in the house has crept further from the office down the hall and toward our bedrooms!" And daddy gets up and puts a little sand and some water on a small part of the creeping flames and goes back to watching TV, with flames still crackling and streaking toward the ceiling. By the time our kids really wield the handles of power themselves, how is the house going to look?
(2) It is like a tsunami. We know an enormous wall of water is moving across the ocean at us. It is inevitable. Each time we walk or bike to the store instead of use the car, the wall of water gets a little smaller. Each time we buy an electric car, it gets smaller. Every solar panel installed, it gets smaller. Etc.
Because we are doing so poorly to control this, the next generation must get (and is getting) involved now. Two new ways to visualize this have occurred to me:
(1) It is like, "Daddy! A fire in the house has crept further from the office down the hall and toward our bedrooms!" And daddy gets up and puts a little sand and some water on a small part of the creeping flames and goes back to watching TV, with flames still crackling and streaking toward the ceiling. By the time our kids really wield the handles of power themselves, how is the house going to look?
(2) It is like a tsunami. We know an enormous wall of water is moving across the ocean at us. It is inevitable. Each time we walk or bike to the store instead of use the car, the wall of water gets a little smaller. Each time we buy an electric car, it gets smaller. Every solar panel installed, it gets smaller. Etc.
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