#DeadLine2050 #TheFadingGeneration #MostImportant #All-crisis #GreatExtinction #Educate #Agitate #Organize #DeepAdaptation #WeTheBoomers #PayItForward
I am (freshly) sixty. I am unlikely to live beyond 2050, when the effects of climate change will become mass-deadly, reaching even rich people in rich countries. I know I will not suffer the worst of it, as it is going to hit our descendants much harder. And there are many of us.
I do not believe I have a real influence on the powers that be, nor they have a real will (let alone a way) to reverse or even stop the collapse of the civilisation as we know it.
But I do not feel powerless, either. I have unique generational experience, knowledge and perspective that may become useful for people who are right now heading into the Great Extincion.
The challenge is how to to make ourselves useful - identify, collect, test and convey what we have to offer. This is our challenge to face.
Today, most of the people do not accept the need to change their lives, to re-learn and re-train themselves. They are either in denial, or they are not yet desperate enough to quit their hope in politicians and industrialists doing the right thing.
When they finally have no other choice, they will be in despair, in panic, with no headspace nor time to (re)invent skills, choose wisely, premeditate instead of reacting.
What we can do for them? We can plan ahead, pool the knowledge, find and test tools, technologies and solutions. When they are needed, we will have them ready for everyone to use.
We are not going to live through the All-crisis anyway. But we can spend the remaining time in good company, doing things interesting and worthy. And when our time comes, we will leave something valuable behind, for people to appreciate, as long as humans exist here.
If you, Dear Reader, (whatever is your age now) resonate with this message, say it here. Let's find each other, let's gather, organise, and act. We - the boomers - got the best of this civilisation. Now it is time to pay it forward
