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In reply to the discussion: I refuse to let cynicism make me bitter.. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)have already told you about poverty and infrastructure. I will only tell you this, the young have no time and they are fucking tired of older white men, and it is older white men mostly from where they sit. screwing their future.
I can point to the women and minorities in the bunch, but they see angry white men... in both the government and the corporate structure throwing their future away.
Yeah, yeah, they are young... and they will change the world (you once maybe were that idealistic, I know I still hold to it)... but you know what? If they do not succeed in some major changes, they will inherit quite the hell. This is not me saying that, or for that matter them saying that (though they get it) it is the ecological degradation that they will inherit, the climate changing, and oceans rising.
You are not going to be here for the worst of it. Neither will I. They will. And what needs to happen is far from slow or incremental. We are quickly reaching the point of no return.