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One reason I've been baffled by the Gen Z swing to Trump is that I was (naively I suppose) so sure that young people were largely up in arms about climate change. You'd have to be living in a cave not to know that Republicans in general and Trump in particular were planning to do nothing whatsoever about it -- quite the opposite! Gen Z will be the ones living with the consequences of out-of-control climate change, yet they seem to have dropped the issue. I can't figure out why.

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I locally saw the collapse of a lot of environmental groups during Covid due to the sort of RFK Jr/anti-vaxx segment of the crunchy environmental types, none of the local groups I belonged to pre-Covid are even still active. I'm an environmentalist because the science supports us being in climate crisis--science also shows the benefits of vaccination, and I'm not going to hang out with groups of people who don't believe in vaccinating........

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