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What is it like to have this time for your formative years? Many of us are curious what the generation after the Millennials thinks and how it will differ growing up. My 13YO is thinking of starting a YouTube channel. I’m encouraging him as I’ve felt very lucky to learn from him.
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At age 13 in 1978, I figured there was at least a 40% chance of global thermonuclear war by the time I graduated college. It made teen angst seem trivial by comparison. Wonder what it's like to grow up with that % feeling much lower.
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Now it’s figuring there’s a 90%+ chance of huge parts of the world having a wet bulb temperature above human tolerance by the end of the century, triggering mass migrations magnitudes greater than the Syrian crisis and by extension, conflict & nuclear war.