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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.
They are in complete denial. Imagine approaching death right as it's impossible to deny your generation personally fucked up the future of civilization itself.
In my experience you now get one of: 1. The weather has always been like this, 2. I did everything I could, I recycled and brought my own cup to the coffee shop, 3. Oh well, I'll be dead soon so it's not my problem.
Point to a decade where someone wasn't thinking this as they expired.
You don't have to confine yourself to the 21st century. Or even the 20th. Or even the last 500 years. Literally pick any decade.
Except that I'm talking about feeling personally that you were part of the problem.
Joe Blow was not feeling personally guilty about nuclear weapons. Or felt like they personally caused the war. Or that the economic crash was their fault.
Do you know how many people, particularly boomers, spent literally decades denying climate change, while obviously not participating in efforts against it?
If I'm an old white boomer who spent the last 15 years making my whole identity a Ford F-350 and Fuck Biden / Fuck Trudeau bumper stickers, I heart oil, i heart beef, i heart anything that a liberal hates.....I might be feeling a bit uneasy about some of my stances while I'm watching the world burn. Then again, let's face it.... the ones who did the most damage are the least likely to even be capable of understanding how dire things are, even when they're staring it in the face.....