{"id":5022,"date":"2012-07-28T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2012-07-24T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:11:33","slug":"year-3-month-7-day-28-smile-when-you-say-that-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-7-day-28-smile-when-you-say-that-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 7, Day 28: Smile When You Say That, Punk."},"content":{"rendered":"

Buncha slackers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Amid a summer of record-setting heat, most of Generation X ‘s young and middle-aged adults are uninformed and unconcerned about climate change, says a survey today.<\/p>\n

Only about 5% of Gen Xers, now 32 to 52 years old, are “alarmed” and 18% “concerned” about climate change, reports the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Two-thirds, or 66%, of those surveyed last year said they aren’t sure global warming is happening and 10% said they don’t believe it’s occurring.<\/p>\n

“Most Generation Xers are surprisingly disengaged, dismissive or doubtful about whether global climate change is happening and they don’t spend much time worrying about it,” said author Jon D. Miller.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve used the Arabic translation motif before. This one works pretty well, I think. Sent July 17:<\/p>\n

It’d be easier if “climate change” had a scarier name. If we said it in Arabic, jingoistic politicians could warn their constituents that “Aletgheyrat Alemnakheyh” would devastate American agriculture and infrastructure. Flag-waving pundits on cable news could discuss the threat to our way of life, drumming up support for an all-out national effort against an unpronounceable enemy \u2014 an epic struggle to preserve our civilization. Young people would be patriotically inspired to enlist. <\/p>\n

But as the NSF survey shows, America’s youth are understandably too preoccupied with shorter-term, more immediate issues \u2014 paying for their education, finding jobs \u2014 to consider the threats posed by climate change. And who can blame them? It is the job of a society’s elders to think in the long term, to avoid convenient falsehoods and easy generalizations. Our generation has evaded its responsibilities to the future; it is theirs that will pay the price.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buncha slackers: Amid a summer of record-setting heat, most of Generation X ‘s young and middle-aged adults are uninformed and unconcerned about climate change, says a survey today. Only about 5% of Gen Xers, now 32 to 52 years old, are “alarmed” and 18% “concerned” about climate change, reports the University of Michigan’s Institute for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[980,749,644],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-analogies","tag-ignorance","tag-media-irresponsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}