>>858260Seriously, this is what drives me nuts.
Coming from the political party that likes to play up family values and tradition what good are those ideals if you have no future legacy to carry them on? I'm not a fucking tree-hugging-hippie but it really bothers me that these people are so eager to look the other way because it doesn't conform with their political ideology.
I want humanity to do great. If I ever have kids I hope that someday they will have kids and a little bit of my bloodline will continue on. A thousand years from now these climate concerns may be trivial due to advances in technology and engineering, we may very well have substantial colonies on multiple planets/objects within our solar system. But in order to get there we need to be more forward thinking than just our own lifespan. It's like Heinlein said, "You don't pay it back, you pay it forward."
As an aside and on an /out/ level I work part time at a state park. It's a small solitary mountain but a major cultural landmark for the region. The place really means a lot to me (the staff, the community, the mountain itself, etc.) so I put a lot of extra time and effort into doing what I can for it. I really hope people are still hiking it thousands of years from now and get as much from it as I am.
