I was in Ukraine yesterday. That is 100% untrue.

When you're in a war zone, even if you're in the country but far from the action, the only thing you can think about is your immediate survival and the survival of your friends and family.

Literally nothing else matters.

Thanks for editing your comment for additional clarity. There isn't much one can do about anything if they survive until the next day, but that does not mean they don't care about non-immediate concerns. Flight 571 survivors were not pro-cannibalism, they did what they had to in order to survive in terrible circumstances. People in poverty and conflict definitely still care about their familys' futures.

A family in conflict might not have a future if we "only talk about 'climate crisis'".

> Flight 571

TIL. That was a terrifying read..

It’s funny how intensity triggers our anxiety like that. Triggers a disposition to ignore the future for the moment.

I wonder if western propaganda and hype generation for technology, quarterly gains, the latest stuff! could be leveraged intentionally to distract any human then given our shared biology.

That’s a rhetorical point since I know our biology is intentionally used against us like that by industry because marketing and PR execs have explained how it is just so they seek to keep our inner monologues flush with their phrases.

There’s plenty of new perspectives and applications of your agency available. Why not put yourself to them rather than demand others change theirs?

No? Going to sit at screen and PR others into action? Typical rich westerner; externalizing the change they want to see in the world.

Given how absolutely hard it is to get people to evacuate in front of an obviously on-coming disaster such as a flood or hurricane, I think your view of people is naive at best.

Any (scientific) source that climate change will guarantee the death of the children or grandchildren?

I'm sure they would care in an abstract sense. Probably they would not agree that nobody should be talking about the suffering they are going through. I have friends and family in Ukraine right now, and I've not heard anyone say anything remotely like they wished people were focusing on the climate instead.

Sounds like you are the one denying racism.

Sir/madam I think you might need to do some serious re-calibration.

As someone living in the third world let me assure you those living in poverty have more pressing challenges for themselves and their children. They are fighting raw nature daily for survival and your attempt to redirect attention away from, say, business and work creation to your "end of the world (maybe)" fears is not going to go over well.

What I don't understand is your lack of doubt that they would (or should) care. The conviction is something analogous to religion.