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

[uitlander]

Ditto.

I think the thing that scares me the most about climate change is having been a researcher in a subject where understanding the impact of climate change was pretty essential, I can still remember the abject shock at reading the early papers that told us just how fast climate change had happened in the past (big switches in ~10 yeasr), and then looking at the overwhelming way in which it transformed the landscape. Most people have no concept of what a 1 degree change actually means for their environment, and like most of my peer group I can already see the evidence of it happening around me. Insects have one of the most rapid response rate, and I noticed the local insect fauna switching a few years ago. My environmental scientist friends confirmed that they had also noticed this, and most of us think the momentum is already too strong to stop. It's down to mitigation now.