> When you're dead 25 feels the same as a few million years from what I was told.
Not if you have children.
And the happiness of your children is affected if they know that their children will die from climate change. And so on, transitively.
It’s a beautiful thing that kids give you: a sense of purpose that extends below your own lifetime.
I'm starting the question chaotic climate happening in my lifetime - 37. "Not being around" is something geriatrics get to enjoy, so basically all of our politicians.
That's 4 billion years from now, in the meanwhile we could keep the planet livable and not on a course to venusian climate.