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Alternative Lives R Available's avatar

“Sorry” would beca good start.

And then try to give them the information, skills, resilience and attitudes that will help them cope with a very different and much more dangerous world..

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Jed's avatar

What I'm missing from this is "capitalism" and class consciousness. Climate collapse is a direct result of a very narrow period of history, petrocapitalism, that's lasted about the last 130 years. It's not like the entire 10,000 year history of humans on this planet have been leading to this, but rather that it's a result of a specific set of circumstances. My own existence isn't "part of the problem," but rather my existence within the context of petrocapitalism. This framing gives both kids and adults something to fight against, to work against: to fight on behalf of the working class against the elites. That brings meaning to our lives and gives us something to live for.

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