It’s going to be real ugly I can tell you that for sure.
The children have no future. The old have accumulated ownership of pretty much everything.
A generation with nothing to lose.
EDIT no climate future
> A generation with nothing to lose.
That’s what they said about millennials. Now the average millennial is 34, has kids and owns their home. Isn’t it just the pits when the system turns your would-be revolutionaries into homeowning parents with a stake in the success and stability of the system? Maybe it’s oppressing them through prosperity?
I found this suspect, and looked up some stats[0]. It's hard to tell exactly, since the age groups don't fall on generational boundaries. But it does seem like ~50% of millennials own a home.
However, the more concerning trend is that rates of home ownership have declined across all age groups since 2009[1]. In particular, the age of the average homeowner increased by 10 years between 2001 and 2019.
[0] https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...
[1] https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...
This is in general a myth. If you look at millennials or gen-z, ownership at their age isn't any different from the boomer generation. And it's still the best time to be born in.
We can all agree that climate change is a problem to be solved, but "the old" can remember plenty of doomsday scenarios that never happened, including past predictions that global warming would destroy the world by year 2000.
In the meantime, activists that prevent people from going to work, or that destroy property, are just jerks IMO.
This is a bullshit conservative trope. I'm 53 and no such prediction was ever advanced as a basis for policymaking. Just because someone might have made such a hyperbolic prediction in a TV show or magazine doesn't mean it ever had widespread currency in the scientific or policy community.
Please stop poisoning the well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
Some predictions were more accurate than others, which led to effective policies, so for example, thankfully, we still have an ozone layer and we haven't started a nuclear war yet.
Not sure what "poisoning the well" is supposed to mean here. I was replying to someone that predicts some sort of violent revolution. For what, I can only guess.
It's not a soothing platitude for the next generation, that the most they can work towards is inheriting their father's achievements.
Let's be honest, if we've come this far down the 'argument heirarchy' for growth and expansion, we know things are bad.
It does look like a lot of climate legislation is facing similar situations, where the boomer generation is voting opposite to younger generations.
In both cases it's frustrating because the younger generations are the ones that will have to deal with the consequences of laws they did not agree with.
Property tends to go to descendants, but politics affect all.