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A generation's fault =/= the fault of every individual in that generation

Grandma must pay for her sins. We might not be able to save the world, but maybe we can avenge it.

It's really not the fault of any individual. Well okay yes it is, but it's like 200 individuals at the very upper echelons of society.

My grandma used to say she didn't give a fuck about climate change because she's old and she'll be dead before it destroys the earth. Now she needs the air con to live in summer. I hope she dies of heat stroke.

I remember when we used to have to squeeze our Halloween costumes over our snowsuits in Canada because it was too cold to go without. I don't find it that cold anymore. And snow every December. I only ever saw one green Christmas as a kid in the 1980s.

I hate this timeline so much.

We need to punch up and stop infighting.

Such a weird take. As if millennials and Gen Z/X would have behaved any different if we were born in grandma's generation.

Nestle and Shell "yeah Grandma"

Entered the comments looking to correct the narrative. Looks like that work is already done :)

I like Lemmy

Edit: blame the system, not the people bound by the system.

You say that but I currently know middle managers from the gen x and millennial generation expecting people to drive into work when they could be running their businesses from home and should be minimalizing the emissions. Grandma didn’t make them do that.

Taylor swift and her private jet are of the millennial timeline.

I don’t know a lot of grandmas with a private jet.

And grandma isn’t providing you all with the plastic bottle waste. She isn’t forcing Coca Cola down your throat. Which btw is still being enjoyed by millenials who still are keeping these giant assholes in business. Grandma didn’t make you do that.

Grandmas aren’t forcing you to drive a combustible engine car.

Grandmas aren’t calling up to make the oil companies dump into the sea.

Grandmas aren’t releasing c8 into all the water infecting everyone just so you can have some non stick floss.

These are current day decisions. They are STILL current day decisions of the current generation in power of decision to continue to use, take advantage of, build on top of or change.

so don’t shuffle off the blame off yourself and your own generation are doing to your grandma for what these fuck faces are continuing to be doing in the current generations running the show. They have their own free will and choice to fuck us all up with their selfish behaviour.

If anything: grandmas may have even taught a few people how to knit. And cook frugal with little food because some even lived through a war. Those are actually sustainable hobbies believe it or not. That’s not something you can ‘attribute’ to current day generations for all the shit they partake in that isn’t sustainable. /rant over.

In Poland it IS cold. Few days back I had a (not so) nice morning when I had to scrape frost from my car windows :)

Even if it’s not as cold, going from 120 for weeks to 80 suddenly makes me feel like I’m fucking freezing all the time.

It's 34° C here I want to fukin die

'Round here it hasn't really ever gotten cold until the day of Halloween for as long as I've lived here. It's always so wild, too. 80-90's up until the 31st then bam low 50's to mid 60's, windy and rainy. Like instead of using a dimmer to gradually change seasons, it's a binary switch from summer to winter.

it's supposed to be 90°F next week 😭😭😭

Entirely??

Laughs in 1.5 C

When I was a kid October used to be a lot warmer than it is now. We have snow currently. Fuck this shit

The "okay boomer" era of the internet came and went. Idiotic to blame climate change on an 80 year old person when we know exactly who paid for and then covered up the data suggesting manufacturing and transportation was harming the planet and ourselves.

Maybe for boomers generation we should bring back throwing the elderly off cliffs, then stop. It’ll make future generations wary of the tradition returning. 🤔

It's so funny how OP and people like him took the bait from the big capitalists and now are complaining about old dudes that never had any power instead of the ones that had and have real power.

They have no clue that in the future they are the ones who will have fingers pointed at

Wow

What do you mean used to be cold? It's been getting colder in October for a while. It wasn't like that before tho. I remember October being much warmer, and I didn't have to pick thick or full bodied costumes to keep myself warm trick-or-treating

One thing I'm unsure of is whether warming is so bad because a) planet was warmer multiple time in prehistory and it led to abidance of life b) we live in interglacial period and if that perid ends we are going to fight much worse calamity and need much more energy. Even getting out could become life threatening.

On the other hand Venus situation is also not ideal.

Shell is currently releasing pure death into the air and water (biggest oil spill 2010 - Barack Obama was a voted in president at this time ) and nestle charges for water use (flint water disaster 2014 - - Barack Obama was a voted in president at this time) baby formula was 1974 - (Richard Nixon ) and dupont released c8 into water supply in 1984. - (Ronald Reagan).

this could have been reversed any time in the past 60 years (even the last 15)

So Whatever your grandma voted for back in 1960 doesn’t matter. There were many voters and presidents since 1960.

So is your grandma a member of congress or equivalent for her country, a billionaire or a mega corporation?

Are you stopped consuming animal products? Have you stopped consuming plastics? Have you sold your car? Have you stopped flying? Have you divested from companies that do those things? Then how is it all Grandma's fault?

October was never cold. You're gaslighting yourself