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In reply to the discussion: I now believe Joe Biden will run for President in 2020. [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Climate change is a different reality to consider when one sees themselves as being here in 2030. Lawyers, business executives, military leaders?
No we need more young people with strong science backgrounds to on school boards, city councils, state houses.... My congressional dream team would include many scientists and policy makers who don't have a tight embrace of what US capitalism has become. Also candidates who live, work and play in world's other than the one they know best.
There are a lot of other desireable qualities, but that describes some young local candidates I have gotten to know.
I think that even the youngest presidents you mentioned did not have a sense of the everyday realities climate change may bring. Of course, we were denied that opportunity in 2000.
Obama swept in and enthusiastically saved the flawed capitalism our economic system has become. Young people are looking at the previously unimaginable population shift toward a huge nonworking population.
A reality this new demands the constant urgent question of "what is going to happen to my kids?"