A little theory I'm working on

[sesquipedality]

I theorise that people born after 1980 are (on average) massively more worried about climate change than those born before. I further theorise that this is directly correlated to the fact that those of us older than this were far more scared of nuclear Armageddon than environmental Armageddon in our formative years.

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, why 1980? I just ask because AIDS was the boogeyman* for me when I was little, not nuclear armgageddon. I was born before 1980, but not sufficiently before for me to remember any of the 70s.

*Oh, and, of course, the Mummies and dinosaurs chasing me home from the museum, but I gather that's quite normal for small kids in whatever year ;-).

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

The Berlin Wall fell in 1990. This means that communism wasn't a large factor in the life of anyone under 10 at that time.

Of course I'm talking in generalisations. I was just wondering why climate change doesn't scare or bother me that much.