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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by wiether on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:29AM (#38949830)
> [...] global warming [...] either cannot be generalized globally or did not start in 2010

I guess global warming _can_ be generalized globally?

It sure didn't started in 2010 but neither did social networks.

Facebook opened public access in 2006 which about the same period when Twitter was launched.

_An Inconvenient Truth_ was released in 2006 and it seemed like the start of a global discussion about global warming. And behind _global warming_, there's actually the overall destruction of our environment by mankind.

I agree that social media is a cause, but the given arguments cannot exclude _global warming_. Quite the opposite.

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by defrost on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:35AM (#38949876)
The 1972 UNEP First Earth Summit seems a lot more like the start of a global discussion about global warming.

It marks the start of concerted white anting of the message and Koch et al funded think tanks to antiprop the fossil fuels are bad message.

An Inconvenient Truth was more the start of some limited central north american awareness starring some local politician or something.

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by FrankyHollywood on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:40AM (#38950921)
global warming is actually peanuts compared to worries of previous generations, like the cold war, school kids got instructions on what to do if an atomic bomb would fall on city!

stress and worries are from all times

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by defrost on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:26PM (#38961063)
* It still needs to be dealt with,

* the dangers are very real,

* unlike the risk of Cold War, doing nothing does not lead to the best outcome.

Forget about the stress, focus on the reality and mitigation.

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by z7 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:44AM (#38952808)
>I guess global warming _can_ be generalized globally? It sure didn't started in 2010 but neither did social networks.

As another poster pointed out:

>Folks in the 60’s thru 80’s expected global nuclear annihilation with some probability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38936280

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