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There’s a very well-described bias of “old people” being biased to inflate the virtues of their own generation at the expense of young people. These notions don’t stand when tested experimentally. The basis of this cognitive error is one projecting their own knowledge/experience as a 30-100 year old onto their memory of their own teenage selves.

there’s a joke about this:

If everything was better in the past, I wonder how was nostalgia.

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Obviously climate change is very abstract to some people, but direct pollution should be less so. The issue with capitalism is that privatizing profits but socializing cost is a standard shortcut. Like Exxon, we will be paying the pollution/green house emissions cost of their operations and they’ll get to keep the money and reposition themselves as the heroes of green energy.