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Remember that the head of Nestlé thought that access to clean drinking water WASN'T a human right, but that his company should be allowed to profit from it.
Yep, and this is why we should collectively boycott from anything Nestlé makes or has a stake in.
I'm not saying it's easy...But Nestlé is awful... And we should try.
Not that this is at all a solution for the problem. I just can't stand anyone who thinks that clean water isn't a human right.
The better solution, of course, would be to get corporations like Nestlé out of the pockets of our elected officials.
@@annrussellcollins1 My boycott of Nestlé began when we found that their corporation was selling products to substitute for mothers' milk --ended up with thousands of starving babies--corporate accountability crap. That was a good forty years ago, at least. Nestlé is still up there in profits, and what do they do in the interest of the global consumers?
@engletinaknickerbocker5380 I've done my best over the last several years but they own so much that I realized a couple of things I buy infrequently are actually owned by them. I was so disappointed. Even if my few cents don't affect them, I don't want my money going to their garbage.
Yeah this is why I boycott them best I can. Nestle and Goya have a shared monopoly on groceries in Mexico as far as I can tell, so they’re not going anywhere, but they don’t need my money.
*thinks
Let's talk about a minimum of 11% INCREASE on corporate taxes, now
Or more from the ones adding to the pollution
Add a zero, I want them taxed 110%. They need to pay reparations!
Better get a headstart and end oil subsidies immediately too. Hiding the real cost of things is what got us in this mess.
How about the 19% we just had due to Joe's monetary policy. That's like right now.
@@macnitt4039 *[citation needed]*
With the profits they are pulling in it is baffling to me why we subsidize these guys. Enough is enough.
Most of us are barely scraping by as it is.
Because corporations are "people" and the "people" have paid for politicians that keep it that way.
Because boomers. Thats why.
lords and kings. We refuse to live under lords and kings. That's why they changed their names To millionaire and billionaires! Us barely being able to scrape by is by design.
@@nerdjournal oligarchs. Sound ghoulish to me lol
Bribery, plain and simple.
The key word in that sentence is "median". The top 10% will still be making their BILLIONS.
the top 10% is far more than the oligarchs. and they really wont gonna have a good time either. those assets are gonna fall through the floor.
I agree except it's not the top 10%. it's more like 1% or 0.1%. the bottom of the top 10% has an income of a [edit: removed "few", thanks for the correction] hundred thousand dollars per year. well-off, yes. billionaires, no
The elite need to be made to pay their fair share
Who will be left to create their wealth?
@@Octa9on it's lower than that. I think 100k is low top 10%.
I already pay 37%. Meanwhile, GE made billions of profit last year and paid ZERO in tax and got a tax return of over 400 million dollars. Thanks, America! Greatest country on earth! Am I right?!
"There are seven federal income tax rates in 2023: 10 percent, 12 percent, 22 percent, 24 percent, 32 percent, 35 percent, and 37 percent. The top marginal income tax rate of 37 percent will hit taxpayers with taxable income above $539,900 for single filers and above $693,750 for married couples filing jointly." ...then you aren't worried about becoming homeless or having to choose between food and required medicine. Good for you. Yes, corporations should always pay more in taxes than the lowest 2 tax brackets at minimum.
If you don't like America, democracy, than why are you here.
Revenues are not profits.
Our tax system is sociopathic
Thank dumpy😅
I am a Single, 51-year-old, white male, with no children. I joined the military out of high school, and very quickly saw with the world was like. I was in Mogadishu Somalia, three months before the events of Black Hawk down. I have voted democrat my entire life, and I always will press for liberal and progressive agendas. I am a tree, hugging, save the planet hippie. I have zero confidence in the human race. I will keep recycling, I will keep trying… I just don’t see corporations doing anything about it and they’re the ones that have to. Have a nice day!✌️
Other people are disappointing, aren't they? The older I get, the less I understand them or life. Still, I find whatever faith I can in my fellow man to be comforting, if nothing else. Plant on my brother.✌️
I live in Oklahoma. Me and a few others are people living here greatest nightmare.
We're tree hugging rednecks. And yes we do exist. We push for water conservation and watershed protections. We're up against opening drill sites and fracking that can affect our ground water. Even though we hunt annually we fight for protected lands staying protected. We don't just want our children to have a safe environment. We fight so our great, great, great, grandchildren will have a safe environment.
The hardest part is getting people to realize we do have an impact on our environment. Which is crazy considering that Oklahomans were part of the cause of the Dust Bowl.
They put me in Louisiana where David Duke soon ran for governor. I learned a lot about America, and politics. I've been prog ever since too. I was neutral before.
Cheers friend thanks for your dervies and continuting the good fight
Natrona, I share your outlook but don't think it's only the private corporations that should bear the brunt of our displeasure. Where I live (outside the USA),the authority governing logging practices is a part of the Ministry of Forestry. It can't even blame its rapacious deforestation on plain corporate greed! I only discovered this relationship today at an Earth Day event and am gutted by it. It seems as if big business, whether private or government run, holds all the power and ordinary citizens are just expendable. Climate fodder, you and I. 😢
I will be 88 in 2049.I hope I have food and water and shelter.
I would have been close to 80 in 2049. Be glad, for my sake, that I didn't live that long.
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I'm with you on age and I'm stocking up on Spam and Alpo! A little cat chow for desert! Also distilling my urine.
I don't even think the world will still exist by then and that is sad.
I’ll be 87, if I’m alive. I worry for my children
And in 25 years, there will be people screaming, "Why didn't they do anything back in 2024!" But trying to do anything now? "Baseless theories! It'll be fine!"
Well it was more important to pick on trans people and ban books you see
@@malcaniscsm5184 I try to tell my 23 year old son to ignore the smoke and mirror distractions. That's what those things are...designed to keep us from concentrating on the real work of government that isn't getting done!
G'day,
Mate, I started voting against Global Warming in 1980, the first time I was old enough to vote...., here in Oz, where voting is compulsory.
At every Election,
The Parties campaigning on prioritising the
Environment...,
Lost.
Every Election was
Won by a
Party which promised to
Generate Jobs, Dollars, and
Prosperity For All through
Cheap Electricity, Cheap Transport Fuel, Cheap Freight Rates, Cheap Air-Travel, Cheap International Shipping, Cutting "Red Tape" & by eliminating "Green Tape" and Fast-Tracking All Development Proposals intended to
Grow
The (Local, Regional, State & National)
EcoGnomie...;
And ALL of the Winning Parties, for 46 bloody YEARS
Have stated all the above, in every Campaign Platform, all concluding with, or words to the effect -
"...Regardless of any Fears or Concerns regarding any alleged Environmental Damage or Consequences potentially resulting from the intended Development, which may be voiced by the
So-called 'Scientific Community' and other assorted Environmental
Protestors and
Activists - who would seek to stand in the way of
Continued Progress, and the resulting
EcoGnomic Growth and
Prosperity for ALL, which
Fast-Tracking the Approval of future
Development Applications
PROMISES to
Deliver....".
So,
YOU, ALL...;
VOTED FOR THIS....!
I bought 100 acres of failed Sheepfarm, 34 years ago ; and pay the Rates on it from my Disability Pension - and the bit of the Skin of Planet Earth which I paid to be made responsible for, has had a 34-year rest, lying Fallow,
Rewilding itself.
Healing.
Sadly though, the bit of
Earth being run by the
8 Billion Fcukwits with whom I share the Biosphere has
Bin-Trashed, by ALL the
Selfish Arseholes competing with each other, to
Consume ever more
Bright and
Shiny
Landfill.
But...,
I voted against the relentless
Fossil-Carbon Fuelled
Pursuit of
EcoGnomic Growth ; and the
Anthropogenic Global Warming in which it has
Resulted.
It takes 25 years for a Cube of CO-2 to finish achieving 95% of the Warming which it WILL Cause...;
So,
Therefore thus & because, all of today's shitty hot Weather is the
Direct result of Petrol, Diesel, Natural Gas & Coal-Fired Electricity... which
I
Personally bought and
Burned, BEFORE 1999.
Because when I paid for the Title Deed in 1990, I failed to stop
Burning Fossil Carbon.
And I, at least, take responsibility.
Such is life.
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
The same people won't want to do anything in 25 years either.
Let's play a little math game:
330-million people in the U.S.
Assume one-third of them are too young to vote, and another third are too old, infirm, or incarcerated to be of much use.
This leave 110-million adults in the U.S.
This ought to boggle any clear-minded individual: that 110-million people can complain that government or corporations **should** do this or that.
We, the people, are the labor force. If we don't work, nothing gets done. If we vote with our dollars, money flows in a very specific manner that doesn't blindly serve the interests of the 1%. We have all the power we need to hold authoritarian institutions accountable for their actions, and we also have the power to hurt them far more than they have power to hurt us.
Yet here we are, using words to talk about what others should do, while we sit back and do nothing. If there's anyone to read about the past century of citizen inaction, the question they're likely to focus on isn't why government and corporations did what they did, rather, why the 110-million of us felt so powerless to do anything ourselves.
Raise our taxes by 11% while still haggling over minimum wage.
DeSantis just LOWERED it in FL to $12/hour. SCUMBAG.
Raise taxes by 11% to send money to Israel and preparing to cause wars and feed the weapon manufacturers.
As a 54 year old let me tell you, 25 years comes in the blink of an eye.
As a 71 year old I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...it's real. :)
I’ll be 70 in July. Most around me are walking around without a clue. They’ve no idea that slavery is on the way. The overlords will choose one, the others will be governors, the rest of us will be slaves. This is according to Fritz Springmeier’s book, “Bloodlines of Illuminati,”which somehow landed on my iPad last night, and I couldn’t put it down. I read Dr. John Coleman’s book, scary enough. I won’t be around, but 25 years is not long.
59 here and yes, we’re so busy working and raising kids, b4 u know it’s gone…
I met a guy from Minneapolis in a bar/restaurant about ten years ago. He was about sixty at the time. A short little Republican jerk who had a wife who was out of his league and got jealous of anyone who talked to her. Anyways he said "I don't care about climate change. I'm not going to live to see it's effects and I don't have any children. I say drill baby drill. I want to burn all the cheap gas while I'm alive." I thought his lack of human solidarity was disgusting. It is this mindset that is promoted in Republican circles.
The former president says that all he wants to do as well.
Libertarian disease .
Come on - we've all seen that clip of the Velveeta Voldemort yelling at one of his rallies BURN BABY BURN, referring to oil and gas.
Sadly, as a Minnesotan, I know that guy was in no way isolated.
He has a lot of friends.
Luckily there are still more Democrats in this state and more Democrats are relocating to Minnesota for 'health care' (multiple interpretations) and other security issues.
That was me
Makes sense. Corporations and governments ruin the environment, and we the citizens pay for it, all while prices for goods increase, utilities increase, gas prices increase, rent increases, and housing prices will probably double again just for the Hell of it.
Look up “Corporate Capture of legislation”.
Capitalism is unsupportable long term.
Makes you want to just quit and go live in the woods.
That's the way they like it. Unless we stand up for our own interests, that will even get worse...
Corporate capture of enforcement mechanisms has led to dismal outcomes. Capitalism cannot be sustained long term.
Start by stop buying so much stuff.
CEOs are price gouging us weekly,because Trump&the GOP laughed in the Rose Garden laughing when they cut taxes for Millionaires&Billionaires! Raise their taxes!!!
2017. Correct. Agreed 👍👍
They not only cut taxes fr the wealthy in 2018, but handed over 23 Billion in cash to the Walton Family and added the expense to the national debt.
It is easy for the core or leading right wingers to talk working class or lower middle class white voters into voting right wing: just point out what a lot of African Americans are doing. Then you can talk them into anything else.
Joes in charge now and your still getting gouged. How's that work?
@@macrosensethat's silly.
We need UBI, stronger antitrust laws, and environmental protections now. Not a few years from now, not tomorrow. NOW.
100%
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Start locally, because the system is very resilient to anything beyond local action.
Heck, it is resilient even locally but not beyond the reach of a determined few who might grow strong enough over time.
More importantly, we really needed it 50 years ago.
Except some actor who performed alongside a chimp, sold the country a lie, which has put us 50 years behind.
At least 50 years behind, because that lie is still very strong.
You’re not gonna get it from anybody in November. Our election in November is going to be a disaster.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of flying cars and robot housekeepers like the Jetsons had. Now I'm just hoping my granddaughter will have water and oxygen available. This is so obviously insane, but I don't know what we're supposed to do about it with the system rigged against us, including SCOTUS.
I believe we will have the most extravagant luxuries available to us... but we won't be able to afford food, water, or housing.
We ain't gonna get The Jetsons in 2049, more like Mad Max
@@michaelgreaves2375 it will be possible to buy a bag of gold for a piece of bread. What is even wrong with us?
@@JRoss-zxzx That's exactly what I'm afraid of. I used to think it was a fun, crazy fantastical vision, but now I can 100% see it happening.
Is Trump in jail going to make your granddaughter breath again? you people are truly sick
As an aside.
Concerning minimum wage.
If your business model requires employees who are paid less than a living wage, you need a different business model.
It wasn't all that long ago when the Corporate PR argument was that it would simply cost too much to mitigate global warming, but everyone seems to have forgotten that campaign. We need to remember and hold people responsible.
They said the same thing about seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, etc. The auto industry fought them at every turn. Yet today, you can't even find an option to buy a car without most of those things because over time, people realized that they actually want them. Maybe people need to see some *real* *pain* that is a direct result of global warming in order to be "scared straight"
@@WBS001 ehh, I dont want any of that and would kill to be able to save money by removing all that from my car.
@@DellikkilleD I think you mean "I would give an arm and a leg to get rid of the safety features on my car."
@@oldauntzibby4395 I would certainly *risk* them for an affordable option. as would a huge swath of other americans.
Deliberate embracing of Destruction (e.g. Nihilism) - *as part of an Ideology.*
I really wonder, now.
Cartoon I saw.
Some corporate executives are looking through the windows of their boardroom at the world on fire, and one says to the other:
_We need to figure out how to monetise this._
That is literally what will happen. The world would end tomorrow if a corporation found a way to make a profit out of that. No hesitation. Because that company would know that if they didn't do so, another corporation will beat them to the punch.
"Fallout" on Prime Video is an interesting take on that, quite a few jabs.
@@aureyd2515 I saw bits of that show, maybe a bit more than half of it. I was so pleased how they made the 'fridge horror' of "fiduciary responsibility" in a board corporation a household idea. It's something that was bothering me for a long time, and I'm excited to see fairly mainstream works touch it.
You inherently cannot trust a for-profit publicly-traded corporation with _anything,_ no matter who's currently in charge. It's literally the law that they need to be backstabbing sneaks who care not for law, morality, basic courtesy, or even long-term survival when there's even a hunch that more money could be made another way, and that any evidence otherwise is grounds for an executive's removal.
If (the fines*the proportion of violations caught*the chance of losing the lawsuits + the expected cost of the lawsuits) < (the money made by some legal/human rights/environmental violation), no matter by how little, then not doing the thing is literally 'being a bad executive' and grounds for removal. That's how all public corporations HAVE to operate. It's maybe a structure that shouldn't be allowed, much less enshrined as the 'one true way of doing things' that everything else must be forced to converge upon.
Quoting from one of the episodes "the end of the world is a product"
By the time they realise they are also screwed, it will be far too late for any of us
The mechanics are a bit different, but Americans are essentially paying a huge hidden tax on healthcare right now too because the pharmaceutical and health insurance companies have bought enough of our so-called representatives to deny us national healthcare at a reasonable cost--and it allows them to price gouge us instead.
There are plenty of other countries one could expatriate to. If your house is on fire and you can't put it out, but yet you stay in the house, you'll die through your own poor judgment to stay rather than to get out while you can.
Absolutely. 👏👏👏
@@RichardHarlos Not everyone has the means to just pack their bags and head to what they think is a better place. Most of us would rather just fix the problems here rather than having to find another home in a different country.
@RichardHarlos For most people, leaving is not an option. And leaving doesn't solve the issue.
If your house is burning down, you don't just let it burn all the way down and catch all the houses in the neighborhood on fire as well. You call for help, you rally those around you, you do your best to put the fire out and mitigate harm.
When Clinton turned medicaid private, things got so much worse and have never gotten meaningfully better. I was a child on medicaid in those days and suddenly couldn't access the doctors I had been.
We, the average American are already in financial slavery due to corporate and political greed.
No, we're in financial slavery because we aren't smart enough to set aside our partisan fanaticism and, instead, to stand together against power. Those in power have plenty to answer for, but we (the people) fail to do our duty to hold them accountable. So, in fact, 'they' only continue to do what they do because 'we' fail to do what we ought to be doing... are capable of doing... but don't actually do.
@@RichardHarlos I agree although that does not dismiss their responsibility for what has happened. We live in a society that has been fed a constant stream of falsehoods of what is truly important, who is responsible, and what propaganda truly is. There are a variety of contributing factors and it becomes a complex issue. Bottom line is WE have to stay educated. WE have to speak up, get involved and vote for the best person for the job not just play party games. WE have to let corporations know how we feel and then be willing to stop purchasing if it does not serve us well. WE have a lot of work to do and yet, they still are playing a huge role in financial slavery.
@@MesmerEyes2 Fair enough. But I would also add to what you wrote that 'we have to stop asking permission' and that 'we have to find within ourselves the courage to take risks on the order of the risks taken during significant periods of U.S. history'. And this involves, in part, the courage to allow our political identities to die in order that we may stand in solidarity... to the degree that it's 'the people vs power' instead of the current status quo 'half the people plus power vs the other half of the people plus power'. In this latter scenario, power always wins, regardless which 'side' of the people get what they want.
It's an insidious distraction, this widespread inclination to see our fellow humans as 'the enemy' rather than seeing those in power that way.
@@RichardHarlos Agreed. It is insidious and has spread like a cancer devouring common sense and the ability to discern what is real versus the stories we are fed on a regular basis. Corporate and political power brokers play the game by using us as chess pieces.
there is an even greater threat than those mouth foaming dudders in their comfortable positions it should be obvious to everyone but alas the blind lead the blind an walk in a continuous circle. never finding the true path because they are feeble minded and incapable of escaping their very nature.
How about if all the rich pay their 11% now?
They need to pay 90% now. They shouldn't even exist.
They knew this 50 years ago...I cannot believe fossil fuels are still a thing.
The people who need to hear this (e.g.: members of Congress) are not subject to those effective losses (their income won't go down), and don't care about you and your net income. This transition to clean energy should have started 1970-ish.
Carter put solar panels on the white house, Reagan had them taken down .
Landlords out there right now figuring out ways to get our rent being 89% of our income by then.
No joke, they want to do that now
@mariyamwaniki Im looking for an apartment right now. They want rent to be no more than 25% of your income. I have a decent job for being in the South, but I'm a single middle aged guy. I cant qualify for 60%+ of whats available. 2 years ago I was paying $345 for a small 1 bedroom. The exact same unit is over $900 a month with a waiting list over a year long. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Run down trailers in awful trailer parks are $1800 a month in the rural South.
@@jeremysmith4789 that bites. I think that's why vans have become so popular. Housing is ridiculous. The rich get richer but not smarter. They should study history and find out what happens when regular people don't have basic needs
@@jeremysmith4789 just a suggestion, find new construction. 25% of New construction has to be low income. It's federal.
Don't assume that the population is going to remain at around 350 million Americans, or higher. We may be down to around 200 million by then due to the deaths of babyboomers like me and decreasing fertility rates.
It's been almost 23 years since 9/11... so about that long. Not long.
Good point!
The question I ask to climate change deniers is, “what is your plan if your wrong and it’s to late to do anything ” …no one has ever given me an answer..hmmm
Good question
The answer is they don't care.
Politicization of science is going to continue to cause death and suffering.
I know people who believe it's real, but I don't think we are the main cause...And therefore believe there is nothing we can do. Well, I say 97-98% of scientists disagree with you...I don't even argue/discuss past that point. Maybe that will eventually wake them up. But if not, we have to concentrate on the ones that will wake up and those who can do something.
The answer is that they are laying up a nest egg to weather the next era better than those who sacrifice today.
They think they will be saved in the 'rapture' that's allegedly coming any day now 🙄
Too many people worry about tomorrow, next week and next month to be able to think decades ahead.
But those wealthy enough not to have to worry about the day-to-day should be the ones footing the bills now. They benefited over the past years and decades.
By 2049, the middle class will have completely disappeared. By that time, either the poverty stricken and working class will have finally had enough and revolted against the ruling class OR oligarchy will have fully set in and they will have likely done away with all wage work and condemned all the have-nots to feudal serfdom.
I’ll be almost 80 in 2049, if I live that long, and I sincerely hope I do not.
No kids to care about inheriting this bleak future under consideration? Just you?
@@RichardHarlosYes. It's a real problem for me.
there has never been such a thing as the middle class thats an illusion there is the owner class and the worker class and the workers need to wake up and help each other because the owners won't
And that is "The Up Side". :)
Actually...the math isn't "11% increase in taxes"... It's a decrease of 11% overall equivalent median income... Roughly equal to around 13.75-14.3% increase in taxes...
Now that you mention it, is it necessarily fair to characterize this in terms of a tax increase equivalent? Isn't it - or much of it - really equivalent to an increase in the cost of living, which goes to the various corporate recipients others have mentioned here? In terms of historical tax rates since WWII, taxes right now are at relatively low levels. It is prices that have gone up, whether justifiably or not.
Happy Sunday everyone, Beau is the most reliable journalist in the world no matter what day it is
I've joked retirement won't exist when I hit my 60s, was not expecting the reality check today 🤦
I was told that when I was in my early 20's. Housing costs were going up so fast that it was outpacing my ability to save the down payment. I was determined and so sacrificed and took a second full time job for about a year. I was living for work, but got just enough ahead that I was able to get over the hump, and life became quite a bit easier after that. It was *hard* *work* and definitely took its toll on my family, but in the long run, the sacrifice proved worth it. Depending upon your circumstances, it *may* be an option.
@@WBS001
Recheck the math, I suspect our owners have closed that loophole by now.
I have a nephew and niece not leaving the family home because even rent is too high.
Too many jobs are indentured servitude by design.
I joke that my retirement plan is to die in the forthcoming clean water wars. I'm gradually realizing that it's not a joke more a prediction.
I think this is a bold assumption, because it assumes the Climate Wars won't have commenced by then, as Earth becomes more and more uninhabitable, and people struggle to find places to just barely survive.
Correct. :(
We're already fighting over potable water. Does anybody think a miracle will happen and Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Colorado suddenly get divinely provided potable water?
Seem to remember that if the projected sea level rise happens, we could be looking at something like 3 billion refugees. At that point it is going to be easier to start listing disasters that aren't happening.
The climate wars have been underway for more than a decade.
Denmark is basically flat. We will need to get really creative if ocean rise becomes much more pronounced, or learn to swim! :D This is why we build wind generators, and we have almost as much solar per capita as Germany, even though we are so far North. Not perfect, and not fast enough, but we are trying! If we could only get Maersk, our shipping giant, to go green, we'd be in good shape. Unfortunately it won't matter, if the biggest "sinners" don't get their act together.
Pay attention. Forget the nay sayers. Put your children (and theirs) first.
The 11% decrease in your pay (or is it an increase in expenses) is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. We're going to have more heat and storm related deaths. We're going to have water wars and climate migrant struggles within our country and between countries. Infrastructure is already breaking down. Life can get very unpleasant to the point where money will be the least of it.
Put together cooperative communities of folks who know how to do things, grow things, raise food, build and fix, and will help each other. Even if you're old, like me, think of the younger generations whether they're your biological kids or someone else's kids.
Stop having children.
This isn't going to get better.
There's already enough people.
In my opinion.
Sure. Quit driving. Quit living in the suburbs. Quit living in single family homes. Quit mowing your grass.
Lead like a leader.
Me? I'm a hillbilly*, "jack of all trades*", we'll get by...
* Hillbillies, subversive members of counterculture - don't pay much in taxes, because they make no money as subsistence hunters and gardeners.
*Jack of All Trades - Bruce Springsteen song reference.
If you keep giving republicans control of the house or the senate while putting a democrat in the white house you are not going to get much done. Vote blue all thru to change the political scene and get things done.
Why don’t they bring back the tax levels that Regan removed, that would help.
hmmm was Reagan a Democrat? Trump did everything to bring back those days and did. instead, you weak minded people let the system twist and abuse your minds to the opposite. I really challenge you to be honest and sit down and ask yourself, how was MY personal life really worse under Trump? it wasn't, not even close.
I have been recycling, not using plastic and trying to be environmentally conscious for two decades. I have solar energy and the electric company pays me every month for my excess electricity. I have voted for environmental changes all that time. I am tired of watching the world around me refuse to learn. 😢
For those that say it doesn't concern me because I probably won't be here in twenty five years (and I definitely won't be!) then realize that you are leaving YOUR negligence and YOUR 'Not Me!' attitude to your children and especially, your grandchildren to handle this very real and dangerous problem that WE largely created. Is this how you intend to instruct them on how to handle it?!?!
Not all of us had children. In my case in part because I'm self aware enough to know I didn't want to put in the work having children requires but also because I'm too cynical to have any hope we will overcome the greed and hubris of those in power.
I'm sad for the youth of our world.
@@kristinbytes9615 Just for additional clarity, let's understand that just because you don't have children of your own, doesn't mean that you're not responsible in some measure for the harm that your generation has done. I can't change what my grandparents or parents did, but I can choose to do what I can do. And this seems a bare minimum of responsibility that each adult ought to be willing to take upon themselves: to do what we can, while we're here, to make things better (or, at the very least, not to contribute to making things worse).
I'm not judging you. I don't know you. I'm just saying that 'not having children of one's own' isn't a 'get out of jail free' card. We all have a responsibility to the future generations to do what we can, to the best of our ability.
Celebrating not being alive in 2049 doesn't have a damn thing to do with trying to stop what's coming. Both things can exist within the same person. Seriously, what our generation did? What did our generation do exactly? My generation is the generation of personal responsibility. I'm a Gen Xer. Honestly, I'm not beholden to the human race because I never asked to be born. Yet here I am with aging parents who worked their fingers to the bone and served this country during Nam, and who also aren't getting enough in social security to keep up with the price of being alive today. I have adult children who can't afford to keep up with the price of being alive today. Guess who is on the hook? Meanwhile I have to see a bunch of snot nosed whiney babies crying about what their lives are going to be like? Lady many of us Xers were tossed into the street by our parents when we turned 18. It was the sink or swim game. Nobody paid our damn rents, and nobody made sure we ate. We spent most of our adult lives just trying to survive. If you're so damn worried about the human race, get off of the E waste (that is going to end up in some place in Africa in 6 months when you decide you need the newest model) that you are currently holding in your hand and do something because quite frankly I'm exhausted.
@@the_phuckery_is_real7252 wrote, _"What did our generation do exactly?"_
Have you ever heard the quote, "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"?
The essence of the answer to your question is embedded in that quote, as it is for boomers before you (of which I'm one) and for millennials after you.
Every generation has contributed to the *'profound sickness'* of society. None are guiltless. On an individual level, one note-worthy distinction between people of all generations is their willingness to admit that, yes, their generation was part of the problem, vs. those who deny any such participation in the problems.
Your generation phucked up, just as mine did. And the fact that we didn't 'clean up after ourselves' is the most general answer to be considered.
phu: _"My generation is the generation of personal responsibility. I'm a Gen Xer. Honestly, I'm not beholden to the human race because I never asked to be born."_
However, since being born, you've made choices that have affected others. Sometimes, in ways that those 'others' would rather not have been affected.
So while you may not be 'beholden to the human race', you ought to accept personal responsibility for all the people you've affected but who did not consent to being affected.
If you make a mess, you clean it up. This is a kindergarten-level lesson that no one has any excuse to evade taking responsibility.
phu: _"here I am with aging parents who worked their fingers to the bone and served this country during Nam, and who also aren't getting enough in social security to keep up with the price of being alive today. I have adult children who can't afford to keep up with the price of being alive today. Guess who is on the hook?"_
As a citizen of the U.S., people are responsible for some measure of civic duty. This goes well beyond 'having an opinion' and 'voting'. I don't know you so I'm not going to presume anything about your, your parents, or your kids. But it might be an interesting experiment to inquire of each group whether they ever participated in any protests... whether they ever wrote to their elected representatives to advocate for specific policies... whether they ever canvassed in public to raise awareness of important issues. And to be clear, I'm not talking about talking smack online. I'm talking about organized efforts to bring about positive change that actually cost them (and you) something of value.
Most people in my experience have not done any of these things, let alone all of them. So in this sense, this widespread shirking of civic duty can be convincingly argued to be 'something they did' that contributed to the overall dysfunction of politics, business, the economy, etc. that we observe today.
None of us is without blame. But some of us are unwilling to take responsibility for our part in the bigger picture. And I would think that you, as a Gen-Xer, would understand the value of 'taking responsibility' given that your comment stressed this quality about your generation.
We have some brilliant young people coming up. Hopefully they will find a better way to take care of this old world and maybe even repair some of the damage done. I have faith in them. These are my grandkids.
We're frogs boiling. Absolute travesty.
Literally. The sea temperatures are rising, and the sea levels rising
An eleven percent reduction in pay is a whole lot more than an eleven percent increase in taxes.
I'm 62 now. Starting to be glad I don't have grandchildren for the life they might have to endure
What about children?
The lowest place in hell is reserved for those that remain silent when they know that they shouldn't 💯🇺🇲
Turning 50 in a few months. 25 years goes by in a blink, especially if those years happen if you are/become a parent in the next few years. Not kidding. Yesterday I was young and enjoying life, today my kids are grown, I’m retired from the military and trying to make sense of what and who I’m looking at in the mirror.
Edit: added a clarifying word.
I'm 56 and the last 25 years went by in a flash.
We all are, my friend.
Changes NEEDED to be made at least 50 years ago! Remember Earth Day in 1970 ?!
Ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. They could have been on top of this in the 70s and future generations would have a stable climate. Didn't feel like planting that tree(litterally) for their grandkids shade.
I thought a lot about this topic during the Green New Deal debates. One of my good friends is a traditional conservative and even wrote a published article talking about how much the Green New Deal policies would cost us. After reading it, my one response to him was "Yes, it will cost us money, but nowhere near as much as doing nothing will cost us."
Another question to ask, is how much lower would taxes and cost of living and inflation be now, if we had politicians that had made the push for change in 1995? Instead of mocking and stonewalling changes that constituents asked for? Both parties.
Al Gore started trying to do something as far back as the early 1980s when he was a senator. Everyone just made fun of him.
@@dirtbagdeacon Carter started doing something in the 1970s and reagan undid it.
This country would have been much better off with a Carter second term, especially if it meant 0 Reagan terms.
Not much, because by 1995, hell 1965, the greater part of the damage had already been done.
@@scarpfish - Over half the CO2 in the atmosphere today has been put there since 2000. There is still time to make a difference, it will take a LOT more effort than it would have taken if we had started in 1985, but it's still worth it to save the destruction of our environment and the increase in our cost of living that will result from global warming & pollution.
That's what will garner people's attention, the personal impact of inaction
Only having 11% less money is not the worst that can happen. I am expecting famine due to global crops failures. :(
Yeah. Little things like the Panama Canal becoming unusable.
No one thinks they need to put their long range glasses on. Sticking their heads in the sand they thinks is better.
THE BAD ENOUGH PRINCIPLE: Things are bad, and getting worse. They will continue to worsen until - finally - things get bad enough that somebody does something about them.
Clearly, things ain't bad enough yet.
Bad enough for who?
Corollary: eventually things get so bad that there is no hope of ever fixing anything.
Apathy offers its reward right now, and too many take that reward.
Too many more selling apathy at discount prices.
"What a bargain."
@@susanbauer5345 This. Because what's "trickling down" is the burden people with median-or-lower incomes bear for the luxury enjoyed by those in the higher brackets. They feast, and drop no scraps- leaving us to drown in their waste.
It's happening now no need to wait 25 years.
Yep in many ways it sure is...The price of insurance because of major storms... 😢
Imagine living in 2049 and looking back on today as the 'good old days'. Over spending, over consuming, over polluting, over exploitation of the environment, over heating of the climate - - - maybe by then people will be too busy just trying to survive to remember.
TAX THE RICH!
TAX THE RICH!
TAX THE RICH!
They are the ones that CAN afford it
And NEVER miss it
Hopefully we'll get it figured out before 25 years goes by, and hopefully we'll still be watching Beau.
👋 high, that would be great! Though I fear that anyone left in 25 years is going to be hiding underground from the weather.
"When are you going to give me grandchildren?"
"When are you going to give me a world fit to house them?"
This needs to be plastered on all the news channels and websites
Its worth noting that this isn't raising the amount you're going to pay by 11%, but that your paycheck is going to be 11% smaller. For most Americans, imagine taking out your withholding twice and not getting a refunded at the end of the year.
The Climate fix needs to be non-negotiable.
Its a hoax designed by the system to gain power and own fools like you. Nice job NPC
Meanwhile, those changes cost money. Which means higher taxes. Unfortunately, those won't be coming from the greater-than-median incomes.
It's a wonder anyone that can see where we are going on climate change would even want to have children when things like this are more than likely to happen.
My oldest 2 are childless by choice and although I understand, it still breaks my heart. My youngest is the only one planning on having kids. She's just 22, so I can wait.
My two are both in their early thirties and have made it very clear there will be no grandchildren. I totally understand and actually agree with their decisions.
I’m childfree by choice (sterilised to rule it out) and I never really wanted children but it was the environment and climate change that tipped me over into rolling it out ever happening. One of the best decisions I ever made.
@@Washougalite1In my 60s, chose not to have kids because of this back in 70s and 80s!
Right now we need to get through the next 7.5 months. Win the Whitehouse, house and Senate, than we can accomplish issue that are important to our counrty, democracy and climate. Hopefully Trump goes to Jail. Vote blue.
But don't forget part 2: hold the Democrats to any promise to fight climate change.
Sometimes I feel we don't do this, and decide the best way to express our irritation is to not vote and let the republican win. And this means that primary voters will push a Democratic candidate who is more conservative. Which reverses any advances we did make. Express our irritation by voting in the primary. And don't let up.
@@CSXIV
Part of the problem is being trapped in a reactive loop of 'harm reduction' and no longer trying to be proactive.
In part because too much of the political dictionary was maliciously rewritten so as to malign any proactive agendas.
Any attempt at benevolence is terrifying when 'socialism' has been reinvented as profanity - all to impede such benevolence.
True vote blue
@@CSXIV Also true vote blue
Were you all born yesterday? Apparently so.
We said it before. Pay for it now or pay for it later. It'll be more expensive later.
As I say, make the people responsible for pollution pay AT LEAST as much as the pollution will cost society, and they'll stop excess pollution on their own (assuming enforcement is perfect).
Our current system is robbing the people to give massive subsidies to polluting corporations.
By 2049 people in the United States will be worrying about starvation.
The alternative is NOT FREE.
Something to remember in many scenarios. 😮💨
We already can barely afford groceries. The time for major changes to get rolling was 20 years ago.
"When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second-best time is today." - Nebraska state Sen. Maurice Kremer
Edit: upon further reading, it is apparently an African proverb.
Incorrectly described as a Chinese proverb because the book that quotes it (page 143) Dead Aid (1st ed.) by Dambisa Moyo is popular in China.
1:18 bet it hurts those bordering the Arctic too. Permafrost melts, relative heatwaves, fishing closures...again, wildfires...again, etc...
Reduce pay by 11% and cost of goods will go up by what. 500%+. Ah Corporate apathy and greed, it chills the heart and soul.
Thanks Beau
This makes me want to lobby my local city hall for better bicycle/walkability infrastructure. Double check the city's budget and see where we go from there.
It's closer than the year 2000, which some of us don't remember terribly clearly due to partying like it was 1999 ... plant trees, eat less meat (no I'm not a veggie), drive less and hug your family
Everybody needs to remember that if you have a turkey farm and you let the turkeys into the feed bin, they will just eat the whole lot until it runs out and then start scratching around for something to eat once the feed bin is empty and complain about the lack of feed.
When has everything not been connected to everything else?
I think the problem is that there are too many people who don't plan to live that long and who vote
With the way things are looking, i dont blame a single person for assuming they wont live very long
“Climate change? That’s a YOU problem, I’ll be dead soon”.
- From the “Don’t Vote” ad
And literally….screw my kids and grandkids…my parents have this exact viewpoint.
I wont be but my Grandchild will and I do all I can for her.
No, it’s that some people don’t care. All kinds of reasons. I won’t be around but I vote to do what is needed to mitigate whatever we can!
25 years ago was 1999. Think about how quickly that went by.
Planning is best done in advance
Too late for that, we're in reaction mode now
But the Rich will still be rich right? Please tell me the Rich will still be rich. ;^}
Of course. They will be charging us even more for water by then, and we might even have to be paying for air too.
No fear for them
The 11% is a done deal. Humans might survive if we bet busy. But we need to get ready for that 11% and all the chaos that comes with it, because that is a done deal. And it's coming before 2049. Food is already up, real estate is already up. Property insurance is already up. Food insecurity is already real in many parts of the world. Climate change is accelerating, i.e., it is getting worse at a faster rate. We are no where near where we need to be.
Take another 11% from my paycheck and give me healthcare, college, and a reasonable retirement. Feel free to through in decent public transit.
When the Boomers retire in that same timeframe a huge chunk of tax money will also disappear. It will be disastrous.
Boomers are already retired or retiring right now ..there’s only a few more years of boomers left to retire
I've seen several studies over the past decade indicating that most of the boomers don't make all that much, so that reduction in tax revenue might not be as bad as predicted.
People in my age group have known this and honestly have no hope for any kind of future. We were sold the lie all our lives and the older generations get upset by us (now middle aged) people basically not playing the game (or at least not wanting to). We are convinced that retirement is not an option, and when we get to be that age, conveniently when this scenario occurs, we will have no choice but to work until we're dead. We're getting sick of trying and knowing all effort is in vain because some old rich guys refuse to do the right thing. At least about half of us are, the other half still believes the lie because they have the benefit of living in a bubble themselves. The younger kids all know this though. They need to come out in droves election after election to make any dent in this situation. The system is in need of dire repair, and I don't think it can be worked on without that younger crowd making a huge show. Some of us mid 40s people have some fight left, but it's getting less and less. We need to know these younger people are ready to join in.
My father was a young man during The Great Depression; he learned to survive, and so will future generations. People were committing suicide when they lost their savings, homes, farms, and could not feed their families. However, I have hope for younger generations…they will be OK. Adaptability will become popular again. Keep the faith; bad news is always around the corner.
I don't recall the Great Depression displacing 1 billion people, or lasting centuries.
I won't make it to 2049 (101 years old...nah), but our newest greatgrandkids will only be 26
Mine soon to be granddaughter will turn 24 , oh man 😢
After 50 years of trying to get change I am tired. Everything that was predicted has happened. I blame Thatcher and Reagan who could have stopped this but knew they would be dead by the time it hit and filled their pockets instead. I will be dead in 25 years but I feel so sorry for those who will not.
I will most likely be dead, but my kids and their kids and all my nieces and nephews and their kids will not be. And Inwant them to be happy in their lives. Things must change and those of us who are here, right now, must change them.
There's always Soylent Green
We the people pay for the incompetent mediocrity of our elected representatives.
Who is to blame?
The chicken or the egg!?
Ask our elected officials to vote in term limits. Neither side will do it. They are the uniparty.
The people came first. We are to blame.
I've yet to see any cogent argument presenting a case for why 110-million U.S. adults can't hold the Federal government or 'big business' accountable for anything.
It isnt your elected officials, its the people who load their wallets like a bank worker refilling a cash machine.
Have you ever heard of corporate lobbying? Our votes matter, but theirs are heavier!
@@RichardHarlos Corporate lobbying, Sir. That's what you need to read more on.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
We the People MUST continue to combat climate change...
VOTE BLUE to save our environment, our paychecks, AND our democracy!!!
Sorry, but we are where we are because Democrats (like Biden and Obama) have not done much more about climate change than Republicans. What little they've done is NOWHERE near enough. I concede that Democrats are less malignant than Republicans, but they are not our saviors.
@miriammcgee : That's the MAGA majority in the House for you JMO 🤔 🙄...
@@donaldmrambojr5695if by maga you mean everyone but the few actually progressive people there, dem or rep, then sure I agree too!
This is the only thing that will actually get people's attention and make any further progress against climate change. The money.
I'm not sure I'll even still be alive in 2049. I'm already on Social Security right now.
The inventors are going to save this if anyone will.
The Arctic is already hurting
Our home insurance is already going up due to climate change. It’s not just taxes that will go up, it’s health care, insurance, food ….
One thing that Beau has not talked about that others have mentioned is that first, every society has a caste system with the top caste running society for their own benefit. Second, every social problem must be seen and addressed in the framework of that society's caste system; although many would like to pretend that there is no caste system, especially democracies. But in America the oil producing energy industries and the major Capitalist corporations built on consumerism are dominated by wealthy White men , the dominant caste. Even progressive Democrats worship at the shrine of Capitalism. That's why fighting climate change is almost futile, because it's against the financial interests of the people who rule the nation. They even have the individual private citizens believing that they're the ones responsible for the climate crisis, not the corporations. The only way to fight climate change is to change the culture built on ever increasing consumption of resources. Something we can't do.
Unfortunately I agree with you
Living at the end of civilization is really, really depressing.
Reading these comments really emphasizes that we need to be discussing climate change and poverty and all this in mental health terms. We need to reexamine the acceptance of basing civilization on Mutually Assured Depression.
Im from Sweden and i dont know much about the US politics but i have a feeling that a lot of the American people are very much against taxes, here i pay 33% in tax (i have a low income), the more you earn the more tax you pay, but im my opinion i pay for freedom, i never pay more than 200 dollar per year in health care or medicin, full time child care about 100 dollar per month, i get 80% of my salary if im long term sick, 480 days of payed parenteral leave 25 days of payed vacation ( its a law), free education, children get free food in the schools, we have a strong social security network, everybody has a right to a minimum income so they can afford to have a home and food on the table, im single and have a three room apartment and a teenager and i dont need to worry about the economy or if I have afford to go to the doctor, this is freedom to me.
For me its so strange that so many Americans hate taxes, we at least get a lot for it, i can for example take payed leave for six months of i want to start a new business and a lot of other things, and when it comes to environment Sweden is among the leading countries, we even import trash from other countries and turn them in to energy 😊
Your bragging 😂
@@breakingbadheisenberg9703 i didnt mean to do that 😅, as a Swede im very humble 😁, its just some facts and examples of what you can get from taxes 😊
@VeraBrightfeather it was ironic and a joke, the most countries see us Sweds as a humble and reserved people
@VeraBrightfeather it was a ironic joke, most countries see us in Sweden as humble and reserved
I wish Americans could see the sense in what you're saying, Jeanette. They treat taxes like a personal assault. I see them as people, being civilized, and living together as a society, to improve life for the whole.
Robert Reich speaks very well on this topic.
The relentless accretion of wealth from ordinary folk to the already rich and powerful is an abomination.
There's plenty of money / resources to ensure everyone may lead a dignified life - it's just not distributed equitably right now.
From a Scottish dem socialist. 🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦✊
Congressional & police incomes should follow the citizens' income loss (that'll never happen)!
Can we get rid of the old people in charge that don't care about the future.
Interesting idea.
I'm quite old, and you'd loose a lot of ignorant, untrained young people getting rid of me.
I suppose you "didn't mean it that way", right?
Words have meaning.
@@jaynye4991 how 'in charge' and 'not caring' are you?
@@andruloni
Okay kid, you got me. "Old people" kinda triggers me since I'm 86.
Why not just people in charge?
Which seems to be what you are talking about.
Fifty years ago we saw how pathetic our dependence on oil made us. People were panicking, queueing for hours in hopes of a few gallons, and even (shudder) carpooling or (gasp, shudder) walking. That was a half century ago and we keep buying SUVs and light truck in abundance to the point that EVs and hybrids can do no more than slow the rate of increase in demand. This isn’t a “those corporations” problem alone, they are giving us exactly what we pay for (because they’re in the business to make money).
We would buy fewer SUV if oil companies hadn't dismantled our public transit and lobbied to zone every neighborhood to low density cookie cutter suburbia.
@@greezooo Big Car’s actions have indeed made suburbia the city’s parasite but nothing MADE people buy SUVs instead of cars. That was personal choice “for safety” and “fun.” Fuel efficient cars have always been on the market and SUVs have always been more popular.