I am 72 years old. I have always thought of climate change as a disaster

[dutch508]

Star Member Atticus (11,068 posts)
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I am 72 years old. I have always thought of climate change as a disaster that I would leave my children and grandchildren to confront.

I felt guilty that I sould be dead by the time they would be suffering for my generation's ignorance, apathy and lack of political will. I no longer feel that way.

The drastic adverse effects of climate change are no longer "coming"--- they are here. Barring unexpected fatal illness, I will "share the pain" we have wrought.

 

Star Member secondwind (12,568 posts)

1. Sadly, this is true for me as well... You spoke for me, Atticus...

Am 75, and grandkids range from 3 to 22. Ugh

 

Star Member abqtommy (10,253 posts)

3. I think it's important for us humans to take steps to stop what we do that adversely affects

climate and our environment. But that won't stop the volcano, the earthquake, the hurricane/typhoon
or prevent comet/asteroid strikes on our planet. I'm also 72 and I'm leaving my grandkids the same
situation that I inherited when I was born.

Star Member msfiddlestix (2,317 posts)

4. I'm nearly 71, my grandchildren are actively doing their part...

but the whole weight shouldn't have fallen on their shoulders, nor the consequences of our failure to meet the challenge.

I'm heartbroken over it, as well as the state of our political and social culture.

Star Member Hortensis (46,281 posts)

5. Not me. I've watched it evolve for over 50 years, always thought

the changes would probably force enough action before it got this bad of course, but everything my college physical geography teacher once explained would happen if we didn't stop it has been ever since, including the acceleration we've been living through in recent decades.

Climate/water concerns were actually one thing that made me willing to leave Southern California 20 years ago, not the only ones but on the list. Seven years of drought and increasing temperatures out of the past 9 were not fun for a gardener, and I knew it was only going to get worse.

Btw, all those decades it's always been the left through the Democratic Party that's lead what action has been taken, and conservative-business opposition that's fought ferociously to block it. When Democratic President Johnson officially warned the nation in 1965 that we had to change to meet this giant threat, conservative big business immediately weaponized to fight action, including using the new, modern advertising techniques to swamp the populace with lies that it wasn't happening.

 

Jedi Guy (1,765 posts)

13. Greed is certainly a part of it, but it's not the entire story.

To some extent it's human nature to close one's eyes to a problem one would just as soon not confront. Not because one is greedy and wants more, but because one doesn't want to upset the applecart of what's familiar and comfortable. "If I don't acknowledge the problem, it'll just sort itself out." Trump's response (heavy sarcasm here) to Covid is a perfect example of this mindset.

There's probably a significant fear component there, as well. Some people are just loath to acknowledge when they're afraid of something, anything. I worked with a guy who was clearly an arachnophobe. If he saw a spider, he was out of the room so fast he left a vapor trail. But he refused to acknowledge that fear and insisted he "just doesn't like them."

Unfortunately, we're fighting human nature in addition to climate change. A friend of mine is fond of referring to humans as "overclocked monkeys" and he's certainly right in that the monkey-brain is still very much present.

 

Star Member malaise (231,428 posts)

6. Indeed

and if you want proof a hurricane came real close to Barbados on July 2nd.
That simply does not happen.

Oh, no... a hurricane... during hurricane season...

 

Star Member Javaman (57,354 posts)

12. Until a hurricane slams into D.C. Nothing of much effort will be done.

And even when and if that happens, the repukes will say that these types of storms that flood and destroyed properties in D.C. have always happened and climate change is a hoax. All the while, while they are standing in ankle deep water in the middle of congress

Pobeka (3,611 posts)

14. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.

We (humans) are going to have to actively modify the atmosphere very quickly to block a fraction of incoming solar or the planet may be left for the insects...

 

[Old n Grumpy]

The drastic adverse effects of climate change are no longer "coming"--- they are here.

The polar ice caps have melted and polar bears are converting to brown and black bears so they won't be considered racist.

Miami is under water and the fish that were swimming down Biscayne blvd. left because the traffic was to heavy and the lights are out causing chaos.

The ocean is so hot in Maine the lobsters they catch are already cooked.

In some areas the solar farms are absorbing so much sun light it is dark most of the day.

 

[SVPete]

Star Moron Atticus (11,068 posts)
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I am 72 years old. I have always thought of climate change as a disaster that I would leave my children and grandchildren to confront.

That is some of the rankest, most putrid, most grossly obvious, I've seen from DU in a while!

I'm a few years younger than Star Moron Atticus, old enough to remember that the Enviros' Climate-Panic at Earth Day and for several more years in popular-level "Science" magazines was that humans were bringing on a new Ice Age!

The first response to Star Moron Atticus should have been to call out his lie, but as of a minute ago, no DU member was that honest. But, This, is DU, a den of ignorance, deception, and deceit.

[J P Sousa]

Meanwhile;

  Physicist: Upcoming Grand Solar Minimum Could Wipe Out Global Warming for Decades

https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/10/05/physicist-upcoming-grand-solar-minimum-could-wipe-out-global-warming-for-decades/

Northumbria University’s Valentina Zharkova, a researcher who’s published several papers on sunspots and grand solar minima, has linked the minima to a drastic falloff in the sun’s internal magnetic field. The roughly 70% downswing in magnetic field from its average value is part of a 350- to 400-year cycle arising from regular variations in behavior of the very hot plasma powering our sun. 

[DLR Pyro]

Star Member Atticus (11,068 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215587592

I am 72 years old. I have always thought of climate change as a disaster that I would leave my children and grandchildren to confront.

I felt guilty that I sould be dead by the time they would be suffering for my generation's ignorance, apathy and lack of political will. I no longer feel that way.

and yet you have no problem with the government going so far into debt doling out countless $$$  under the ruse of "covid relief bills" that your grandchildren's grandchildren will still be paying for all the "free" money you think you deserve.

[Zathras]

Man, DUmbasses are the most weak willed, timid, thin skinned, gullible bunch of idiots I've seen assembled in one place on this planet.

[USA4ME]

A few things.

I’m sorry the Atticus primitive has children and grandchildren. They deserved to have a father and grandfather that was a man and not a sniveling pool of worthless urine like they got.

I’m happy to see that the primitives are of advanced physical age as they will no longer be among the living in short order. It’s a shame that mentally they never even came close to reaching maturity.

And I see that many of them are quite upset over the “climate change” they’ve told everyone over and over and over again should have killed the planet decades ago. Any time lefties are miserable, they’re in their happy place, and that whole thread is just bursting with happiness.

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[enslaved1]

Star Member Atticus (11,068 posts)
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I am 72 years old. I have always thought of climate change as a disaster that I would leave my children and grandchildren to confront. 

Then how have you not noticed that the disaster keeps getting pushed back, and that the proposed solutions give governments more power, make their buddies more money, and ignore the worst polluters, China and India?

[SVPete]

Man, DUmbasses are the most weak willed, timid, thin skinned, gullible bunch of idiots I've seen assembled in one place on this planet.

Sheeple

[Texacon]

How many years do we have left on AOC’s 12 year ‘death clock’?

I’ve been too afraid to sleep. Don’t want to miss a minute I have left before ... whatever she thinks is going to happen in 12 years.

KC

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

But they don't feel an ounce of pity for sticking future generations with crushing debt so long as these aging commies get their social security and Medicare.

And what better way to help those future generations cope with that debt than crushing economic and social regulations.

[Ralph Wiggum]

As a 51 year old, I've NEVER thought about "global warming" or "climate change" as any sort of disaster.  Simply a ruse to control idiot lemmings on the left.

[Ferrance]

This whole DUmp thread is nothing but we're all gonna die!!!!  Admittedly it's fun to watch them freak out over something that really isn't worth the tears

[SVPete]

As a 51 year old, I've NEVER thought about "global warming" or "climate change" as any sort of disaster.  Simply a ruse to control idiot lemmings on the left.

Young pup!

By the time I heard of Global Warming - in the late 80s - I was already inured to Enviros' wolf-crying lies. It doesn't take great brilliance to spot their repeated pattern of lies, just paying attention.

[landofconfusion80]

Young pup!

By the time I heard of Global Warming - in the late 80s - I was already inured to Enviros' wolf-crying lies. It doesn't take great brilliance to spot their repeated pattern of lies, just paying attention.

I heard the switch from "global warming" to "global climate change" on the radio one morning when headed to work. My first thought was guess global warming didn't work out like they wanted.

[ADsOutburst]

There was a time when a famous democrat demigod to the left said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."