Young people have major concerns about climate change, which is having a significant impact on their lives and could have broader consequences decades into the future.
It’s weird how this is being approached as if it’s just a mental health problem. Decades into the future Gen Z’s mental health is going to be the least of their concerns. It’s like saying someone who is starving is suffering from anxiety that may have significant long-term consequences. Yeah, their mental health probably isn’t great and it’s going to get worse, but that’s not their primary long-term difficulty.
Its just crisis stalling, first you ignore the problem, then you distract from the cause of the problem, then you try to mitigate the effects of the problem, but of course we don’t try to solve the problem cause that would cost rich people money.
Imagine a miserable fish in a gross aquarium, a capitalist would try to feed the fish happy pills instead of cleaning the environment that makes the fish miserable.
It’s weird how this is being approached as if it’s just a mental health problem. Decades into the future Gen Z’s mental health is going to be the least of their concerns. It’s like saying someone who is starving is suffering from anxiety that may have significant long-term consequences. Yeah, their mental health probably isn’t great and it’s going to get worse, but that’s not their primary long-term difficulty.
Its just crisis stalling, first you ignore the problem, then you distract from the cause of the problem, then you try to mitigate the effects of the problem, but of course we don’t try to solve the problem cause that would cost rich people money.
Imagine a miserable fish in a gross aquarium, a capitalist would try to feed the fish happy pills instead of cleaning the environment that makes the fish miserable.