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I wish I had been old enough during the time we could've still made changes to make a difference. I try to do my best but sometimes I can't help but feel that the time to make serious changes and avoid catastrophe has passed. Good luck in what comes ahead, everyone.
Why? When you cared back then the frustration must have been at least the same it is now. The hope might have been bigger, but at the same time, you would have been part of a very small minority. And I think it would have been hard to endure that almost nobody you know thinks similarly. You might have been the only doomer they know. And how fast we manage to screw up our planet, you would have likely gotten old enough to come to the same conclusion you came to now: we won't make it.
You're right. I should have been a better agent of change as a sperm.