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.
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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It’s not unreasonable to assume that today’s teens feel there’s an even bigger risk of a global “hot house” catastrophe in their lifetime. And I don’t think that’s an unreasonable assumption. Please tell me I’m wrong.
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Compare a high chance of a 2 degree temp rise from global warming to a moderate chance of a 20 degree drop from nuclear winter. I think the latter is worse.
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Grew up with it much lower but now certain we'll all be destroyed within the next couple decades so it's basically irrelevant.
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But, you had a 0 chance of being shot in a school shooting, something kids have to think about today.
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That was me as well. At one point (we're the same age), I took a road US atlas and drew various destruction radii around target areas across the US. (tot. destruction, firestorm, fallout, etc). (reading: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Alas, Babylon, Fail-Safe, On the Beach, etc)
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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.
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I grew up in the 90's with no thought of thermonuclear war, but I lived in dread of the rapidly oncoming Armageddon, so I think that's about the same.
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