Who will advocate for the future

I continued watching Bill Gates' documentary - What Next on Netflix. The next episode after AI, was about misinformation, followed by climate change.

Climate change is truly one of the greatest threats of our time. The running format of this show, is that Bill sits with a group of people and then they talk about whatever the point is. In this episode, Bill sat with a group of young people/activists(?). One of these young people seems pissed, and rightly so about the state of the affairs. And the fact that we are doing too little. And in the end, it will be too little, too late.

It is easy to be pessimistic about this. Not easy. Normal. It is normal to feel pessimistic about climate change. One thing I have begun to appreciate more is that we have to do something. Just screaming that nothing is happening will not do anything. We have to find solutions.

It is easy to want an escapist solution. Some way to reset everything. But that's just fantasy. We live in this capitalist world. We can either tax carbon use, or encourage green technologies by making it profitable to use.

I had loved some of the ideas in Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry For The Future'. The main idea being that an organisation advocates for the rights for future generations as if they were just as valid as the present generation.

And that is the main challenge isn't. How to make the present generation care for the future generations. We humans can be incredibly short-sighted. And it is becoming easier to be that.

But, the earth, does not belong to us. We must hand it over to the next generation in a better state than we found it.