Why Politicians Don't Give A Shit About Global Warming - Is It Because They're Old?

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6. I'm 43 and I agree it is partly age. The offended people here is because of their age. If you are

over 50 and environmentally aware , my first question would be were you liberal minded in your 30s? because of course not all who are over 50 refuse to look at the future we are creating. I mean the earth loving hippies came from the 60s. I am old enough to remember quite a few of them very well. I do think that for the majority of older folks that are resistant to change and are in climate change denial, one of the weapons in their psychological arsenals is that even if they are wrong they won't be here to worry about it. I even see it in people who know that climate change is real and use it to just not talk about it. What won't effect them , isn't important enough to be afraid of