@ehproque @johncarlosbaez

My boomer parents voted for the destruction of the environment, affordable housing, access to education, government pension plans etc.

These were the popular ideas at the time. This is what their generation wanted for us. They wanted Reagan and Thatcher. And they won. They enriched themselves on the table scraps that "trickled down".

Maybe it hits different if your parents were decent people

@johncarlosbaez working through the grief is a lot.

I am 45. I spent 3+ decades being told by my parents, my government, and everyone else in charge that my political/environmental/economic concerns were invalid and that I was crazy. I was told i was an extremist, or that i was an idealist, or that i didn't know how the world worked.

Now all of that stuff is happening because all of those people just wanted to pull the ladder up behind them and let the world die.

I just wanted to grow old

@johncarlosbaez @BashStKid

And what would one even do to get ready?

My relatively simple and inexpensive medical needs will be untenable in an ecological collapse. There is no political will to change, so i just try to make peace with my fate.

I am simply trying to live my best life now. My life now is as good as it will ever be.