Climate Crisis Should Be Handled By The Youth.

 The young aren't stupid.

Yesterday I got the Sunday paper in the hope of finding another discount booklet inside. They are quite addictive and even local tourists are making use of them. There are 8 stickers with  25% off  on it, four for each week only to be used at Spar. You know, they are jolly useful for buying expensive filter coffee, vegan sausages or cheeses. I love them and when I cleaned a holiday cottage yesterday I noticed an empty wine bottle from Spar with one of these stickers attached to it. Yip, nobody is above a bargain.

Anyway, there wasn't a discount booklet inside ( next week perhaps? ) but an interesting article about one of the off shoots of our climate crisis. There was a study done and it turned out that a lot of young people are seriously thinking about not having children because they are extremely worried about what kind of future they might have, never mind their own future. 

That really isn't rocket science and the young people get it. Our planet is on fire and unless we do something now, the burning won't stop. The kids ( well most of them ) get it and understand what kind of future they are facing, never mind their possible offspring. The world is overpopulated and barely able to feed everyone in they manner they are accustomed and aspire to. 

That is one of the reasons second-hand clothes, cycling and veganism have become mainstream. The kids are doing whatever they can to help halt the crisis now, while the older generation are still debating whether climate change is actually real ( " we had hot summers when we were young " ) and debating if they should perhaps vote for a greener Government. Well, by the time any Government, regardless of orientation, gets going, it will be too late.

That article in the Sunday paper brought home the scary truth that most adults haven't yet grasped the seriousness of climate change. At the moment many in Europe are upset at having to take in refugees, not realizing that with every further year of increasing heat, millions more will have to migrate to countries where they are able to find a safe place to live, one where they are assured of enough food to feed their families. Plain and simple...There by the grace of God go I...

I wish that the Governments around the world, and the people they govern would approach climate change the way they first approached the Corona crisis...imagine what we could have already accomplished?

Biggi