As a student in college, the topic of energy and resources constantly comes up in my classes. Whether it is a pollution prevention class, a class about polymer synthesis (We produce our plastics from oil), Thermodynamics, Materials classes, or even history classes... there is one consistent thing that is repeated from all professors REGARDLESS of their politicial opinions:
It is that the Energy problem of the future is OUR problem. It is MY generation's problem. It is as if that "their generation" will play absolutely no role in helping the problem; rather they just pass it to us and act like they had nothing to do with it.
Why is this?
Is it not the older generation's fault as well? Were not they the ones to hook us to the degree that we are? Were they not the ones to (as a group) not care too much. So if I pour toxic waste on land that my kids were inherent because it gave me money...do I have a right to sit there and talk about how it is their problem to fix it and clean it up?
Is it just me...but why does it always seem like the world's problem's are tossed to the next generation? The Energy Crisis is something we are being "handed", Bioethics and saftey is "not my generations problem. We will just sit back and watch what you guys will decide", social security is a problem that is passed to my generation to deal with it.
That is just avoiding the problem by passing the blame elsewhere. What do you guys think my generation will do? Deal with all of these when the previous generation (again as a group...I'm talking big picture here) didn't care? PRobably not...we are going to do the exact same thing as you guys.
It is that the Energy problem of the future is OUR problem. It is MY generation's problem. It is as if that "their generation" will play absolutely no role in helping the problem; rather they just pass it to us and act like they had nothing to do with it.
Why is this?
Is it not the older generation's fault as well? Were not they the ones to hook us to the degree that we are? Were they not the ones to (as a group) not care too much. So if I pour toxic waste on land that my kids were inherent because it gave me money...do I have a right to sit there and talk about how it is their problem to fix it and clean it up?
Is it just me...but why does it always seem like the world's problem's are tossed to the next generation? The Energy Crisis is something we are being "handed", Bioethics and saftey is "not my generations problem. We will just sit back and watch what you guys will decide", social security is a problem that is passed to my generation to deal with it.
That is just avoiding the problem by passing the blame elsewhere. What do you guys think my generation will do? Deal with all of these when the previous generation (again as a group...I'm talking big picture here) didn't care? PRobably not...we are going to do the exact same thing as you guys.
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