Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds

Re:Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Thei... by refurb on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:05PM (#19965771)

This is a very insightful comment!

When all you've heard for the past 40 years is the end of the world is around the corner, and that doesn't turn out to be true, you start to tune it out.

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Re:Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Thei... by drjesusphd on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:17AM (#19968632)

Do you realize that acid rain and ozone depletion aren't problems anymore because the government fixed them?

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Re:Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Thei... by ryandrake on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:30PM (#19966319)

Yup, I’m over 40 and there’s definitely a “Boy who cried wolf” effect in play here. I’m tired of having to be constantly outraged about the latest environment disaster that’s sure to kill us all this time!

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Re:Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Thei... by atq2119 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:59AM (#19967653)

Except that unlike in the story, there really were wolves, and we managed to take them down.

CFCs and the ozone layer are a good example: there was a wolf, there was decisive action because people listened to the warnings, and we managed to beat the wolf.

Carbon emissions are an entirely different scale of problem though because so much of our economies is built on them.

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