Class, education and gender found to influence difference in views but anxiety about finances was a common theme
Hard to care about war and climate if you can’t afford rent.
The problems we care about tend to be those that are most immediate to our survival and security.
Housing, food, and financial security are all real problems the majority face, especially young people. Caring about things like climate change or authoritarianism, especially foreign, are a luxury if you don’t know when you’ll be able to eat next, or have nowhere to sleep.
Culture wars are a manufactured problem that don’t even exist, except for the problems the culture warriors themselves create.
Shocker that people are more worried about eating than geopolitics.
This just in! Reality does not match the online content farms and why worry about the climate when there is nothing you can do about it. If you don’t have enough power to eat and slip with a roof over your head.
why worry about the climate when there is nothing you can do about it.
Nothing you can do about it?! Climate change must be the single issue where everyone can do something about it!
While I was agree the problem is like the recycling paradox the industry told you to recycle. While they did nothing so you would blame your neighbor instead of them. That’s why most recycling is ether landfill anyway or shipped to a poor country. Nothing in recycling is standard and no body that has power cares.
The point was to blame yourself or your neighbors but not them cause look they created a recycling program. You must have just not sorted your paper and plastic enough. You could reduced every carbon including breathing your whole life and not offset 10 mins of carbon output of any of the fortune 100.
Everyone should do what they can but I think it should be prepositional to the amount your choices add carbon or plastic to the environment.
So with that said people with homeless and food on their mind don’t be a dick and litter but the rest you get a pass.
Yea, my pyramid is broken.
I check basically all boxes (except the blue one perhaps), yet somehow each segment feels like its gonna collapse any moment. Perpetual anxiety is the result.
Depends on perspective.
Technically I am safer than most humans. I have a job, a flat, etc. I live in a country with a good social net even if I were to lose my job.
Yet still it feels like standing at the edge of a cliff for either no rational reason or many small convoluted reasons.
About the headline: “Yeah, no sh*t!”
It was difficult to pinpoint whether the article was about a very obvious observation, the fact that the UK is now simply dealing with the downfall of their economy (welcome to the rest of the world) or the fact that Gen Zs think they are somehow special and deserving of more attention than the other age groups.
