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It felt surreal arguing with boomers about record breaking temperatures the other day. Like, a new record was just broken for the highest temperatures in many European countries while we're sitting there, sweating our balls off in the middle of a 2 week long heat wave. "Nah" they kept saying "We've had hot days before." When I showed them statistics they refused to look at them. Instead they changed the topic instantly and ignored me for a good 15 minutes. Those weren't some strangers I just met, mind you. I've known these guys for my entire life.
Too many people but especially older people (at least from my experience) are completely delusional about climate. They aren't interested in facts, not interested in other people telling them they're wrong and they even ignore what they're experiencing themselves right now in favor of a severely distorted, rather vague idea of what a summer used to be 50 years ago.
I had an extremely weird conversation a while ago. A coworker had never heard of global warming before. They listened intently as I explained, expression making it apparent that they were honest about their obliviousness.
How? It's been part of the news circle for two decades minimum.
Truthfully, she said that she had heard about it in passing but had never cared to learn anything about it. She knew the name and not a thing more. This conversation was spawned when I pointed out that I could no longer relate to the weather that kids today experience because of global warming, and gears started turning and she asked many questions. As far as how? Education in the US is not equally distributed.