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Well, we seem to be living in a pivotal moment in history, here in the States. I know the future I'm working for: a USA that spends the next decades enacting a Just Transition to a more equitable society, focusing on emissions mitigation and climate adaptation at home while also leading the democracies of the world in climate cooperation and coordination abroad. I think that future is achievable, though by no means guaranteed. In, let's say 20 years, I would hope to see a US that's fully and completely led by Millenials and Zoomers, and a society that has purged the fever of fascism from the mainstream (where it is now) and re-committed to a degree of social cooperation that our parents rejected and our grandparents knew fleetingly.
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quarantinethepast posted:The majority of these posts are basically "we're hosed" but I think people are underestimating the possibility of change. Neoliberalism has trained us to think that no other world is possible, but there's lots of people out there wanting change and will jump at opportunities for it. Agreed, and that's something that allows me to continue to hope and work for change. Everything is impossible right up until the moment it isn't.
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Feb 2, 2022 16:41
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Adding to the US population is one thing I'm actually a bit optimistic about. We've historically been quite good about immigration. It's very hard for me to imagine China opening its doors to non-Han immigrants, as we progress through the century and as their demographic time-bomb explodes and the necessity of immigration becomes undeniable.
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