Particularly significant bit at the end (9:13), but it’s worth watching from the start.
Some mild text/map animation.
In all this discussion on climate change and the role that young people are playing or trying to play. I keep coming back to that show the 100 and especially how it ended. Really the entire show is about how young people are manipulated by those in power or constantly ignored despite having good ideas about how to move forward. It starts out on a dying space station with 100 kids who had been arrested for various petty crimes, but are too young to be executed getting sent back to the earth after some time with humanity (or what they think is all of humanity) living off planet (nuclear war). Teens being teens, they at first descending into a kind of hedonistc chaos, until it becomes clear that they are not alone, that there are people still living on the surface who’ve created a sort of tribal warrior culture. Each season escalates the problems that the survivors face, and how at each and every turn, ego and the desire for power undermines a collective solution that would save everyone - with the person usually advocating for a collective solution being a young person who gets ignored by the adults. The last season saw an ever dwindling population on earth (which I guess is just North America, because no one else survived on the surface?) meeting up with a group of prisoners who had been in cryo-sleep for something like 100 years after having overthrown the company that was using them for mining in a distant planet. Like in previous seasons, it turns into a war, with the leader of the people on earth refusing to compromise and vice versa. The one truly evil bastard ends up setting off a nuke aimed at the last inhabitable place on earth (again, really?) so that since he can’t have it for himself and his group only, “no one can”… The last survivors make it out to the ship in orbit and end up going into cryo-sleep while one of them sets the ship to take them to a distant planet which takes over 100 or so years - so that they can start over.
Anyway, my point is that it seems like our current problems are like the general plot of The 100 - we have real existential issues of human survival, and we keep squabbling over power instead of making changes that could save us all. In this case, there is no ship with cryosleep pods in orbit to save us…
Oh, FFS. Learn your own electoral system, Americans. She isn’t (yet) eligible to run for VP for the same reason she isn’t (yet) eligible to run for President.
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