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Why are the youngest people the most worried about "climate change"? I submit it because they have little else to worry about. Their shelter, food, clothing and every other one of life's necessities are handed to them with little, if any effort necessary on their part to obtain or produce these things. They have come ot expect a standard of luxury that prior generations reserved for only the wealthiest. They suffer from a highly skewed "normality bias," whereby they believe that their standard of living has been experienced by all preceeding generations and will--barring catastrophic "climate change"--be available at all times going forward. Second, because they lack life experience, they are the easiest to propagandize and indoctrinate and since they have not been properly educated, their ability to discriminate between truth and falsity is impaired if not downright absent. Moreover, their parents have failed to supply them with traditional moral and religious beliefs, and as a result they are prone to fall for every charlatan peddling some "new and improved" belief system, whether Marxism, satanism, or the latest fad of transgenderism and other deviant lifestyles. I suspect this trend will continue until the entire house of cards built on these lies simply collapses and we all get back to the solitary, nasty, brutish and short lives predicted by Hobbes. At least then there will no longer be any concern about "climate change," so we have that consolation to look forward to.

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Apocalyptic issues are at the core of traditional and moral thinking and teaching.

It is right and proper for children to be treated in a way which allows them to become accustomed to basic trust by being nurtured, protected and cherished. With this established, they then need challenges and setbacks and disappointments to develop resilience. This process needs to occur at home with two parents.

By whatever pathway it has happened, "early childhood education" by strangers while mothers are shamed into involvement in the workforce or thrust into the workforce by economic necessity has interfered with this for many young people and any amount of "luxury" is no compensation for that privation.

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Non-sense is one thing...non-sense you can hand a lawsuit on, that's something else!

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Two very important issues here.

First, I have no doubt that young people around the world have been made anxious about "climate change". All the sources of information and influence have been bombarding them with propaganda.

The wonderful thing is, the high proportion of them who are NOT made anxious.

The second is of course the main topic of this contribution.

I take aboard that there is coordination and cooperation behind the scenes and am grateful for this extra piece of the puzzle.

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The Times is falling into irrelevancy but doesn't know it. Democrats especially urbanite ones, misunderstand nearly everything about the culture war they've created. Theirs is a story of guilt and grievance instead of abundance and reason. As opposed to recognizing every person's own responsibility and humanity in the community of citizens, the folks on the left simply seek to view all of life through the lens of fear, offense, and small problems being amplified for the purpose of "finding" oppression at every turn. Big oil and conservatives are evil fascists. People of a certain income should be forcibly removed from their belongings and work because they are also evil. People of one color must suffer from all manner of healthcare, climate, racial, workforce opportunity, education, etc, etc problems because identity matters over all else. Climate change must be a source of constant fear and it's existence is the fault of the blob of greed/burny things/capitalism/luddite conservatism. This is a group of people who assuage their own self-imposed guilt by applying it outwardly to everyone else. And paternalism is the highest order virtue.

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