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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a factor for people, I have heard more than one parent say they are worried for the world their adult children and grandchildren will have to have. Not so much that it will be hotter, but that there could be widespread migrants, war, food/water insecurity and a breakdown in the rule of law due to climate change.[/quote]

+1.  I feel terrible for the kids I have.  I can't imagine that they will grow old happily.  I look at the old people in pictures of refugees and think that will probably be America in another 50-150 years.  Maybe they'll manage to eek by before it gets awful, but probably not my grandchildren.  It's so sad.[/quote]

You need a stronger SSRI. Seriously, I'm not being an asshole.[/quote]

I'm the poster you responded to.  I'm not an anti-depressant and I don't need one.  I'm not fixated on this, or moping around about it -- if you knew me, you'd know I am actually a very cheerful person and have a very hopeful and trusting outlook.

But it's a cold, hard fact that the climate is changing.  Every time there are awful hurricanes and tornados, we all feel lucky not to have been hit.  Guess what -- they will be more common.  Remember the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?  Well, that's probably coming back too.  We all complain about how food prices go up a tinge when there's a little bitty drought.  Get ready for not just increased prices, but shortages.  Did you read the article about how a big part of the Middle East will be uninhabitable in the next 50 years or so?  Where do you think these people are going to go?  What about all the people in low-lying areas that will be underwater in the next 100 years?  And let's not even think about all that lovely anthrax and other crap that is getthing released back into the environment (along with massive amounts of methane) as the permafrost melts.

Americans feel like just because things have been really good around here for as long as any of us remember, that it will have to continue that way.  As they say in the investment world, past performance does not predict future performance...

I know 2 people that are top of the line climate researchers at top research facilities, and they both say that the only way not to fall into a deep depression about it is just not to think about it too much.

I do encourage my kids to be scientists and engineers.  Some one has better be working double-time on a Star Trek style solution for this whole damn thing, or our grand-children are pretty much screwed.  That's not depression.  That's reality.  And I feel badly that this is the crap world we're giving our kids. I can remember back in the '80's, having a mock debate in school about limiting CFCs in aerosol cans to try to prevent holes in the ozone layer and what we were calling the greenhouse effect back then.  We were all mucking around talking about hairspray while the polar ice caps were melting.   
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