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 w…
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.
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........
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.
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........