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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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This has been clear for at least 20 years to anybody paying attention. I feel for those who will have to suffer this fate they didn't cause nor ask for.
In the 2000s they warned us the 2020s would be like this
They also said the 2050s would be apocalyptic
The craziest part is that things have blown past the worst scenario models, and many are still asleep. Or even worse, think some magical, undiscovered technology will save everyone. The outlook is pretty grim for anyone still around during the second half of the century.
Those 2050s are going to be coming sooner than expected.
We planted trees as kids in the 80s. Didn't just plant them either. We kept going back every year to check on the trees. We made sure that 10 trees for every kid in our school made it to 5 years before we stopped replanting that tree. Over the years I must have planted at least 50-100 trees. I wish it felt like it did anything.
I did similar though we didn’t check them ourselves