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It's not just me, right? Like, this looks incredibly condescending to *everyone*... right? Maybe these people should stop dragging their kids into eco-nihilism & then using their depressive flailing as a "teaching moment" Close the 32 Vox tabs and have a nice meal with your kidpic.twitter.com/zvSQsBTB9g
The human project faces very real and very serious problems, but it seems like none of the talking heads feel it appropriate at all to imply that we can solve these problems while building meaningful and — gasp! — **enjoyable** lives around doing that
Anyway, my 
take of the day is that we're already "eating the babies," we're just too broadly self-involved to notice
The truth is that we already have 24/7 emission-free energy production (nuclear), we're actively seeking out next-gen battery tech to uncage solar/wind, and there are tons of novel ideas floating around & grabbing up get-to-prototype funding. It's actually an exciting time, guys
If you have a kiddo of your own, he or she is entering a world of unprecedented access to information and direct instruction. If they have an internet connection, their age, race, sex and societal position will not bar them from participating in important conversations at will.
"The world is on fire, so what's the point of doing anything anymore" does seem to pass for activism nowadays, I guess, even from children
Huh. I usually >95% agree with your takes. And I agree that eco-nihilism is bad, especially when it's pushed on children. But I don't see the condescension in the quote. I see eco-nihilism being corrected, not compounded. Did the context nail the narrator as eco-nihilist, too?
I see it that way too; the author is correcting the child’s exaggeration - it is too much - but at the same time, they’re also saying, Don’t sugarcoat it. Telling the kid don’t despair, that’s wrong, but don’t overcorrect into obliviousness. It’s a problem you can frame this way.
"Correct them in terms they can understand" ...my world's on fire, how 'bout yours, That's the way I like it 'cause I never get bored. Hey now, you're an All Star, get your game on, go play! Hey now, you're a Rock Star, get the show on, get paid! All that glitters is gold...
I feel lucky to have grown up in that brief window between the nuclear weapons scare and the climate change scare when kids weren't told every day that they had no future.
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