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"Sorry kid, I need my 9% returns on these investment funds, and I don't care where that money comes from."

Well im not having solar panels near my town. They'll absorb all the sunlight and it'll be dark!

And they'll put more of us on the planet too, because it's so wonderful here.

Besides that it's smooth sailing.

Short version: unchecked capitalism.

Also boomers: "When are you having kids? I want grandchildren."

It literally cannot be ignored anymore.

"You don't miss the water until the well runs dry" has never been a more true expression. People expect that if something is going wrong here'd be immediate and apparent consequence. It seems like a vast majority of people completely lack the skill of extended foresight, where one can look at a current situation and see how it can accumulate into a worse situation later.

A great example of this was my mom during COVID-19:

"All this pandemic talk is just nonsense. I'm not seeing people dying on the streets, now, am I?"

If the effects of climate change aren't immediately apparent with some big global disaster happening overnight, then it's not a big issue or simply not real.

If eating something that causes long term health risks doesn't immediately make you sick overnight then it's not a big issue or simply not real.

until it can’t be ignored anymore

At which point the fascist governments people have voted into power will keep on going as they were while murdering some convenient scapegoats, until mass scale industrialised human society collapses, never to recover because we used up all our resources.

Edit: I honestly think people don't quite understand that once all this bullshit collapses, there will probably never be another high tech civilisation on Earth again: all the easily extractable resources will have been used up, and the amount of energy required to extract more would be higher than what will be available once oil-based hydrocarbons have been more or less used up. Magic batteries that require a ton of resources won't fix the situation, and we have no large scale replacement for oil.

Yah I don't think there's anything wrong with the message in the context it's presented. It's a fucking teacher. They are already doing not just the most they can, but also doing something far more effective than butting heads with a corporate-driven world at a time when environmentalism was seen as fringe and ludicrous by most people on Earth.

It would be different if it was some wealthy corporate CEO saying "I'm leaving this for the next generation to solve."

I remember a time that even a teacher saying this to a student would be considered inappropriate activism about a controversial topic.

This comment is anticapitalist and therefore terrorist...

Even America is taking some steps forward in some odd ways.

Trump: “Alaskan refuge drilling is wide open! Drill, baby drill! Who wants first bid?”
Shell: “Ew, no. Literally no one wants that bad PR.”

Class war is the only war that will get us out of this.

Too much extra money and not enough beach houses to spend it all!

The 2001 game Arcanum (a steam punk fanatsy hybrid) had that perspective. You had a world based in late Victorian industrialization and you had elves and dwarves and stuff... but those same dwarves and elves had VERY different views on technology. This is because they live for centuries while humans just decades. They make it clear that the two longer living races often approach technology (elves hate it btw, dwarves like it but are cautious) with caution specifically because they can see the effects of their shit from a hundred years from now while humans simply cannot.

The political process and how to change it in a meaningful and lasting way without risking ~~tyranny~~ profits of the capital class is almost always the problem.

Ftfy.