They've been telling me the world was going to end soon since I was young. I was taught in college in the 80's that the earth was going to be in climate catastrophe by 2000 (and also that there was going to be no oil.)
I believe in science, just hear me out.
All these big predictions are based on n=0 actual data. We have scientific evidence of climate change in the past, yes, but it's all generated from models that came thousands of years later. Scientists didn't actually get to witness and record the event as it happened.
We don't know how long it will take climate change to hit and how bad it will be. We don't know how much is exactly anthromorphic and how much is exogenous.
Based on this uncertainty it's really shitty to teach children that they're not going to have a future because the climate is going to crush us all. But even if it were true, how fucked up is it to tell a child their life is hopelessly doomed when there is nothing they can do? Why not let the child obliviously enjoy a pretty fun part of life?
In terms of the uncertainities that you've expressed:
> We don't know how much is exactly anthromorphic and how much is exogenous.
It's a fairly simple mechanism at earth scale - the nature of the insulating blanket in the near vicinity of land and ocean surfaces has changed as a direct result of human activity.
There are increasing levels of CO2 that lead to an increase of trapped energy over and above a long term stasis balance of sunlight in | heat radiated out.
> I believe in science, just hear me out.
That makes two of us at least and the evidence we have is solid, we have libraries of atmospheric air samples that show the changes, we have a wealth of mining and extraction records that log the amount of formerly buried hydrocarbons we've pulled up in the past century, we have instruments that measure the released gases from the ground and show the spectral sinatures from space.
> But even if it were true,
It is true, and the records are public.
> . . . how fucked up is it to tell a child their life is hopelessly doomed when there is nothing they can do?
Who said there is nothing to be done and we're doomed though?
There are changes to be made and habits to be changed.
My friends teenage children openly voice anxiety about climate change. I'm completely unsurprised that a kid might kill themselves over it. It's a big load for.a developing mind and body.
It's not the young who should be brought to dread and guilt over climate change, it's the old. Why? Because they can actually do something. They have the money and the power and the ability, not the young.
It's is completely unfair to dump thus so hard on children, also either very stupid or evil.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/suicide-rate-highest-among-t...
And that is about exactly the gorram sum total of Mirror's expertise in diagnosing the reasons for suicide.
This is a garbage article, as the Mirror's banner should ensure.