An Open Letter To Gen Z

[@Andrewism]

Be sure to check out the spiritual successor to this video, The Psychology of Collapse! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIHVmqCrad-DZtE

[@toompi1]

Hey, would you be interested if I translated the subtitle to French? I wanna share the video with non-English-speaking friends

[@darkninjafirefox]

When the last tree is felled and the last river poisoned, we will find that we can not eat money

[@theowild2524]

AURORA, i see you :)

[@chronofactor2037]

@@hamstersamiright8837 Maybe you can get some vitamins from the sweat and grime that accumulated on those dollars.

[@antzrantz3883]

Dr. Seuss quote

[@Falcodrin]

@@theowild2524 Thats a good song but I think the quote is ancient

[@kittythecat6090]

Quote goes frickin hard

[@jackoski__19]

I’m a gen z, born in 2004, and I’ve had climate anxiety from a very young age. From the age of like10 I was reading articles, national geographic magazines, and whatever else about climate change. I would write papers for school talking about climate change, and the desperate need for change as it was the only outlet I knew how. I wanted to scream at people, how are we being this stupid about this? It’s such a simple problem, it is not complex or debatable it is life or death. It was only till I was older that I realized why all this was happening. It’s capitalism. Capitalism is the problem, we cannot solve this issue in a capitalist society, it’s impossible. From that moment I became full on doomer. How the fuck am I gonna overthrow capitalism and solve this problem in this incredibly short time frame? I couldn’t, I was a kid in a fucked up world that couldn’t change shit. Now I’m a 16 year old knowing that it is inevitable and I feel nothing but anger. Anger that these people did this to us, anger that no one cares, and anger that I was placed in this fucked up world where I can’t change shit, and now I have to choose between watching my world collapse or... dying. I’m not gonna sit here and doom though, there is not point in that. I will do the best I can to help those around me. I will fight for our liberation, work to help others and lift them up from poverty, and prepare ourselves for what is to come. That is my purpose in life now, that is why I get up in the morning. My only hope is that others will be there with me, standing by my side, because we can do anything as long as we’re together. This world is gonna be bad, it’s not gonna be easy to get through it but we must. I don’t know you, but whatever happens, I hope you make it through. If so, I can’t wait to build a better world with you, and everyone together. Keep on fighting dude ✊

[@Andrewism]

I would recommend the companion piece to this video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIHVmqCrad-DZtE Keep fighting the good fight✊🏽

[@barbarapomeroy6497]

Needed this

[@random6033]

people should've done something about it decades ago when there was still time, now we're kinda fucked, we'd need a revolution or a miracle, I mean... the "worst-case scenario" probably won't happen, but it may still be shit, especially for people living in the global south, especially Africa, where larger and larger areas are becoming almost unlivable fortunately I'm lucky enough to live in the middle of temperate zone

[@juanitopantuflapantufla2605]

Same :(

[@OneSlavBoi]

Bro how could you be 16 and born in 2004 if you posted this a year ago. Surely you'd be 18 or 17

[@barrydheil]

I have taken my time between my layoff and now working on honing homesteading skills, and observing and learning how to build, teardown, reusing workable building materials, growing gardens, learning how different soils affect different plants, and that it is really easy to get large harvests in tiny areas. In a garden roughly 40ft×40ft, I was able to grow more than enough to sustain us for vegtables and still have seeds for next seasons crop. I suppose I am fortunate my grandparents bought a small farm all that time ago, because it has taught me so much about blue collar labour that I hope to use.

[@Andrewism]

That's really inspiring! What do you grow? And how many are you able to feed?

[@barrydheil]

@@Andrewism I grew a variety of stuff. Sweet corn, Lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, tomatoes, jalapeños, sweet bell peppers, squash, pumpkins, some herbs like dill, anise, and basil. We tried watermelons, but a bad case of powdery mildew and an infestation of squash beetles killed the four plants we grew, which as far as I could find was more than likely due to the fact it was a relatively new garden and that the soil was very nitrogen rich, allowing mildew and something commonly referred to as corn smut or huitlacoche to flourish.

[@lucyandecember2843]

o.o

[@alfredogranadosiii4797]

As someone from Gen Z, I'm just really scared. I want to fight for change but even if I do, what's gonna change? We have these old billionaires running the world who don't want to save it because it hurts their profits. I just want to fix every thing but I can't. It's incredibly stressful and I just don't know what to do.

[@Andrewism]

I would recommend the spiritual successor to this video then, The Psychology of Collapse. I hope that can provide some guidance 🙏🏽

[@alfredogranadosiii4797]

@@Andrewism thanks man

[@ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep]

Resist, organize, cooperate

[@suddenly_radical4558]

Same. I find relief in the fact that im a small part doing its best in a large and growing community. Don't lose hope, we will change the world!

[@dystopiaeatsmoney]

@@Andrewism. I’m really appreciative of the content you’re creating. What do you think of Peter Joseph, the zeitgeist movement and the Venus project?

[@KAR_yz]

Great video. As a resident leftist boomer, I appreciate the level of political engagement of your generation

[@thestabbedcoathanger7148]

We need this so badly, I pray so much on this to happen. I hope to see it closer in my life time. I'm so done with all this hierarchy ruling us. I want us to feel much freer. I want to be able to join a group to help out, and I mean genuinely help out the people and earth. I'm just now starting out but I am looking at more ways to do more if I can.

[@danilles.4247]

I believe in us too. I'm an urban farmer with a small farm. I also volunteer with my local food forest. I want to do so much more. I want to help establish a community free-food garden with a tool library and a seed library. I want to help connect local families in need of daycare with the elderly population who feels isolated and estranged. I am also part of a small group that meets regularly to practice non-violent communication skills and offering empathy and holding space. I believe in a kind future.

[@catvalentine4317]

That's incredible, how did you get where you are?

[@blake7570]

The distorted Merry Go Round of life playing in the background… honestly made me cry. I wish more people would wake up to the severity of the climate crisis.

[@vgamer11]

Question: how do you help spread this massage to friends when only one of them is actually willing to listen to you

[@Andrewism]

If your friends won't listen to you, are they really your friends?

[@delve_]

@@Andrewism w o a h d u d e

[@julierubenstein2015]

An important thing I've learned, is to meet people where they are. You can't de-"brainwash" (that language sounds very conspiratorial - despite the truth of it - and as such can actually push people away I think; right time, right place) your neighbors, acquaintances, and friends and family all at once; instead, gently criticize their assumptions/prejudices/misconceptions as they come up. If they won't listen to you when you say "Anarchism" or "Revolution," then point out how their lives are affected by the hierarchies and systems of control - let them come to their own revolutionary leftist ideology. Obv this will be much much harder for conservative right-wing people - but we have to, when it is safe to, be there for them as well, and many of them are actually MORE aware of the systems of control than the liberal folks ime. I'm just learning how to do this, it takes a lot of interpersonal skills, empathy, knowledge about your specific, local situation, eloquence, and patience to radicalize others, but it's worth doing as you can form a community around you of people who share your goals for societal change, not by finding them but by sharing what you know in a way that's receptive to your audience. Sorry that got long!

[@Andrewism]

@@julierubenstein2015 Thanks for this response. I wanted to address this conversational method, but it seemed the issue was less that the person wouldn't accept the ideas of anarchy and more that they were closed off from conversation completely. As though, as friends, they couldn't have open conversations about difficult topics.

[@julierubenstein2015]

@@Andrewism Ah ok ok, I didn't read it that way. Ofc if your "friends" won't listen when your upset/passionate about something, then they aren't very good friends at all! That being said, there is the issue of talking to liberal (US) allies 'n' such, expecting them to be open minded, only to find them defending capitalism as hawkishly as a stock broker, and I assumed that was what @vgamer11 was talking about. Thanks for the reply! I really love your project here, I'll be sharing with my friends ❤

[@hyobro8392]

Thank you for the kindness you put in this video. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places, but I've seen a lot of "dear gen z" content that was full of negative criticism, and felt more like scolding than anything else. Usually it's from millenials, it's like they think we're stupid kids. It's true that people need to be called out when they do harm, but they also need encouragement to be better.

[@dielicagold]

As a millennial let me just say how very proud I am of you "kids." You all inspire me every day. Keep being awesome ✊

[@lebohangmofokeng4480]

Thanks

[@mushymass9716]

Thanks, Auntie! :) l hope we make you proud.

[@jae5952]

you guys inspire us too !! let us prosper together

[@ToliG123]

Couldn't agree more.

[@robertlawson1790]

And the boomers were proud of us. It's nice, but we need something a bit more than pride.

[@shivershins3730]

21 y/o here: this shit is hard. Thanks for this. Edit: Our eyes are open but we just don't have enough agency yet...and every day is critical. Also I subbed!

[@nobody8328]

Don't wait. I'm GenX, and we were told to "wait your turn". Wait to have friends over until a parent gets home. Wait till you're older. Wait to get active in politics until we learn more. Wait to have kids until we earn more. Wait to have an interesting life until you retire. Wait until the generation before us retires, then and only then should we bother having any goals of our own. Wait until someone older than you deigns to notice your existence. Wait. Waiting. I'm pretty sure no one needs a PowerPoint to know how that worked out for us. Make your own agency. Do it anyway. F*ck 'em. Don't wait for the ones who caused the mess with their greed to 'allow' you to get involved. We waited politely for 'our turn'. We assumed that our elders knew better and wanted the best for us. Not only are we still waiting on our elders to di... ehhm, I mean to retire. But now, we're so old that we're really not relevant, either.

[@shivershins3730]

@@nobody8328 Thank you for your thoughtful response. Hope you are well.

[@qwertyqwerty-jy9fc]

I was born in 2002 so now im 18 but around middle school ive learnt more about the climate crisis and i stopped thinking that i have a future at all so now i just kinda exist

[@qwertyqwerty-jy9fc]

doesnt help that im a socialist now and i know more about stuff so i just really dont want to interact with the world and i dont really have hope anythings is going to change, after all we cant just say gen z is leftist and everything will be fine, gen z is also incels and all the things with pepe, the rise of the alt right and all that, i just dont believe anything is going to be okay

[@Andrewism]

@@qwertyqwerty-jy9fc I understand your feelings completely. gen z is also really consumerist and hedonistic, which is a difficult barrier to surmount. It's hard to hold on to any semblance of hope. I plan on addressing these feelings in a video, hopefully next year, because we're already facing a pretty challenging future.

[@qwertyqwerty-jy9fc]

@@Andrewism thanks a lot for replying, it means a lot, im trying to not give up :) also take care uwu btw cant look at the lorax seriously now, all i can think of is the onceler fandom xd

[@degus12345]

I was born in the same year and am 18 :) I felt that I had absolutely no future from about age 11, and I recently broke out of this mindset... it had to do with me overcoming an internal identity crisis that's crippled my ability to enjoy my life and childhood since near the beginning. For me, as long as I trust in myself, and have the sense that no matter how bad it gets, I'll be ME. I'll have a personality, I'll have a determined human spirit in me, and I should be able to confront whatever happens with inner strength. I was depressed af just a year ago though, I nearly took my own life. For so so many reasons, I'm glad I didn't go through with it. I DESERVE to live, regardless of the oppressive political-social-economic system we currently live under. I will never let myself feel like my presence is unnecessary in this universe. I know it's different for everyone, but this was my personal experience with breaking out of that psychological rut. It's like I've escaped from a religion that tried to define who I was and what I was worth. I feel like this religion, ideology, conditioning is intentional. It starts from childhood, into school, and all throughout our lives through social and physical conditioning and programming. I think everyone on some level needs to confront their inner programming and break the mental chains that keep them down if they are to truly experience what humans are capable of being and feeling, in a world where we are not grinded into particles to be reassembled into a machine. I don't know where you're at now, but know this: We are all here, and we are all alive and have power, even if we are separated, disconnected, and any of our actions seem inconsequential. We are human, and we all deserve better than this. The only way to take our future back is through force, and not all force is violent.

[@qwertyqwerty-jy9fc]

@@degus12345 ❤️

[@drscrubbs1896]

Man, now I got that climate anxiety again. Thanks for the video! Will share with my friends :)

[@localgrandparent1007]

I am forever thankful to the eyeballzone for helping me fine *chef kiss* content

[@Ha_Wa_]

"the progress of the past was built by sacrificing the future" well that about sums it up now doesn't it

[@scarlettdamante4945]

I love all your videos so much! Each one feels like you reached into my childhood thoughts and fleshed out the concepts with research. Its amazing to see you gather a community around these ideas. I'm glad to be a part of it in a small way.

[@Kenny-cv7xr]

I literally felt so hopeless until the end. Now I feel like we can do something. There can be actual tangible change for all! Thank you so much for these insights. I appreciate the work you do.

[@butterflyeffect6298]

as a gen z, I really want to help with direct action, but I have no idea how. signing petitions and going to protests doesn’t seem like it’s doing anything, but I’m unsure what else to do

[@Andrewism]

See my video on Mutual Aid or my recent Q+A for some guidance

[@thevoid8948]

i can understand why people want to move past our current form of civilization but any time someone gets near anprim shit i kinda have to side eye them as a disabled person because i depend on modern medicine and its production to be able to walk and live a normal life without horrific pain.

[@emilianogv2978]

Ni es anprim, es "solar punk" para que te hagas una idea, es abrazar a la tecnología como una forma de mejorar la vida en el planeta en lugar de conseguir profit

[@joshplaysdrums2143]

Another great video! Love the idea of specializing in skills that can help your communities!

[@mushymass9716]

Send this video to my little brother and sister ❤️ Thanks for this. It's always been my hope that the little ones I helped raise will someday live with me as part of a sustainable community

[@Lol-mi4ht]

I keep relistening to this and gaining something new each time. Thank you

[@frogwithknives3749]

I found you channel yesterday and your vids are awesome!!

[@businessrodent8067]

in this video you: sent me into a spiral of anxiety about my future or lack thereof then immediately twisted it around and gave me a warm fuzzy feeling... i think thats called hope or something

[@desotaku5202]

I don't know if I'm considered gen z or millenial at 27, but whatever category, i will experience the disaster when i get old enough. I'm old enough to barely remember 9/11 but i hope that when i do die old, it's a world of peace I'm proud to leave behind. I changed for the better, you all changed or are better from the start and now it's time to fight for a better world we can be proud of✊🏾

[@a1t3rmusic]

will definitely be making use of the points mentioned in this video great work!❤

[@Ailuk]

This Video made me want to farm Turnips and Goats. I would trade the turnips and Goats Milk for the skills of someone who can Purify water and then I'd make Goats Cheese using the Water. The Cheese would then be used by the community to trade with other communities in exchange for other Luxuries. Great Video! Can't wait for The Governments to Collapse!

[@tibbygaycat]

Goat communism is based

[@Ailuk]

@@tibbygaycat I’m not sharing my goats - they’re mine! You’ll have to trade me a skill for any of my goats milk, or maybe on a hot summers day when I’m feel generous I’d share some.

[@ms-fk6eb]

@@Ailuk maybe we can use this centralized ledger system to make trading skills easier? not everyone that wants goat milk knows how to do something that you want done!

[@Ailuk]

@@ms-fk6eb well in a community of tight nit people skills are not a luxury to be guarded from strangers but a knowledge to be shared, if the community wants maximum cheese output we will work best together. I may not share my goats milk but I will teach people how to take care of, milk and breed their own goats. The community is small enough that people can be friendly without expecting something in return, otherwise know as generosity. If someone has a skill that isn’t useful to me like an example is maybe a weaver, then maybe their skill will become useful to someone else who I’ve taught the skill too. Too be honest that comment I made 5 months ago wasn’t thought out very well as I just had this energy I wanted to express. It’s fun though to build up my fictional community more and more though

[@silverlynxclaw1460]

I've been taking a liking to gardening herbs and heirloom tomatoes and saving seeds as my form of escapism. I hope we are set free soon. Maybe it will be a useful skill in a new world.

[@naturalistmind]

damn, as a millenial i understand what you mean, we were supposed to fix our parents misuse of everything. I can only hope that gen z can do what we failed to, but if it means anything to anyone, some of us arent done trying.

[@renumbr6171]

"blackboards, whiteboards, and smart boards" Me, a german gen z:..... Wh-....whats a... What's a whiteboard... (in germany there are almost no whiteboards, just a few sprinkled smart boards when the school wanted to look fancy, and almost p u r e blackboard classes)

[@Andrewism]

Haha I was trying to relate to as many people as possible. We have a lot of blackboards still, some white boards in secondary school, and almost no smart boards.

[@DiThi]

We had some whiteboards in Spain for music and electronic stuff since blackboards were a bit too rough and details difficult to see.

[@letkwu]

I’m in love with you and your creations cuz I meet you in so many ways, I was trying to figure more on civilization without anprim fkrs lucky to have made my way to your channel! shared w all my friends 💗

[@Blaineworld]

I have been thinking this lately: if you prioritize profit over all else that hard, what even makes you a person??

[@llabreell]

I'm genx, not gen z.. but I fwded this on to my sons and future daughter in law.. your "letter" so eloquently brings the sense of urgency required of this moment.. i have had many discussions with them about what is coming.. they see it too.. there are moments when I see them feeling overwhelmed and powerless.. and as a mother, my heart breaks.. I believe it will be helpful to hear a voice of common understanding and to know there are others globally, also working toward meeting the massive challenges ahead.. i have faithfully subscribed politically, to an anarchist view, despite literally every other person i know-excluding my boys-thinking im either naive or nutty.. your content offers much more concise commentary regarding cooperative over coercive society than i am generally able to convey.. i hope by passing along your links, my kids will be able to gain a clearer understanding of what is not only possible, but necessary.. thank you..

[@TutorWindow]

I'm old, but I listen to you. Don't quit. Young people need you.

[@connorconnor1631]

"but we _do_ remember the [2008] recession" mfw

[@squashfei8907]

Thank you for this video. I'm a Gen Z, and I want to help the world in whatever way I can, but sometimes it's hard to know what that looks like. I also want to add that hopefully in the future we can move towards veganism. Mexie and The Liberal Cook have some good videos on leftism and veganism.

[@bthomaslyman]

Hi! I love your channel and this is a great open letter. One subject I'd like to interrogate is the meaning of Permaculture that you mentioned. In community with indigenous people, I've come to understand that permaculture is not consistent with indigenous stewardship of the land. Any given region has its own ecosystem that is unique to its features. Introducing permaculture cultivation often means introducing species and cultivation techniques that are a departure from local wisdom. I kind of abandoned permaculture about a decade ago. The state of permaculture may have changed. However, comrades I know have experienced toxic behavior for major figures who teach permaculture. I look forward to reflecting on what the values are that brought us to permaculture, and what are the conflicts with our values that call into question the compatibility of permaculture and anarchism!

[@emilianogv2978]

La imposición siempre será terrible, si algo nos enseño la modernidad es que una sola cabeza y un solo método no bastan para diseñar un mundo para todos, debe ser desde el verdadero reconocimiento de la diversidad y no de esa homogenizacion occidental rancia

[@richmail]

when everybody says "prtect the earth" but over thousands of years, the earth is witehred...and then it gets hanged down to us.... a wasteland...we'll be lucky to hand it down one more gen

[@MissDrawable]

How about instead we stop this shitshow of hand offs and change it then? We have so much more power than we realise, we -need- to grab it Dont let pessimism and doomerism blind and bind you comrade

[@rhi6150]

dope vid. sharing everywhere

[@jeevand.5148]

This is off topic but are you Trinidadian? You're accent sounds awfully familiar

[@Andrewism]

I am!

[@jeevand.5148]

@@Andrewism Lmao had a feeling, good to see sone Trinis on the platform, best of luck dawg

[@alexanderb7721]

I just discovered your channel and am interested in watching more in my free time. I am a lefty gen z like most other people here, and like a lot of people here, I feel a sense of powerlessness. Many, many people are disillusioned with what we face (though there are many who unfortunately aren't), but I don't feel like there is any significant movement against these problems everyone is stressed by. I don't know the cause though. Maybe it's hesitancy with putting ourselves out there, maybe many just want to spend whatever time they can with escapism (I certainly love doing this), or maybe it is just a lack of knowledge of what we can do. I'm not really subscribed to that silly notion history was built by great men, there some individuals obviously played major roles in shaping it, but there are commonalities with other movements. What I'm mainly thinking of when I say this is the civil rights movement, which had leaders like MLK and Malcolm X, or Gandhi and the removal of the British Raj, or the communist revolution, which seemed to have been heavily influenced by writers like Marx (though I'm not really qualified enough to make that claim, not knowing enough about the revolutions, so take that last bit with salt). These movements had people that served as catalysts, as inspiration, a banner for people to follow. They had leaders. While the heavy lifting was obviously done by those who followed these leaders, or those who inspired them to lead in the first place, what I think we really need are people who can lead, and teach methods on how to change things. I believe heavily in public disobedience, or boycotts, or whatever. But we need something. Hell, there may already be those leaders out there, like Greta Thornberg (though I don't know if she is well respected) , I couldn't even tell you. Regardless, we need a means to both motivate ourselves, and teach ourselves how we can truly medicate the world's ails. Without that, we don't stand a chance, and will die off just like the countless other species that will fall with us.

[@curtissjamesd]

At over 100k subscribers now, I am so happy to see your influence spreading

[@HP-il4xf]

“I have no mouth but I must scream” Best reference I’ve ever heard 😂 10/10

[@Fran-xmlo]

I’m going to send this to four people who I think would really enjoy it or get something from it.

[@danielpirone8028]

Appreciate the positive attitude

[@growingrobin]

Millennial here. Count me in. I‘ve spent lots of time learning about rebuilding. I‘m ready for action.

[@growingrobin]

@Empty Glass I am not on Twitter. I‘m here, saying, I‘m ready. Refill? 🍀

[@corpsehandler5321]

i'm 39 and have known about this a long time and have been tired for almost as long, but "(capitalism) won't break down all at once" weirdly helped?

[@michaelcho1201]

Thank you thank you for organizing ideas and hope for my future 🙏

[@Doribi117]

I'm a millennial and I relate more with Gen Z then my own generation most of the time

[@insomniacresurrected1000]

I am a millennial male, and I relate with Gen Z women.

[@lebohangmofokeng4480]

who else sees this man getting 500k subs

[@justabeholder4753]

As a younger gen z'er (2007) man I'm happy that people are actually recognizing how shit everything is.

[@terrybullock3140]

According to Wikipedia most Gen Z are children of Gen X. My son just turned 16 - you can do the maths. I believe many of my generation are desperately rooting for the upcoming ones to see the world differently, without the brainwashed, imperialist dogma of our elders that we grew up with. The world is going to change radically, probably within my lifetime (and I have no plans to die within the next few decades). Rise up, people and be your true selves. You'll have a lot more support from what you call your 'elders' now than you might believe. We can do so much better than this. Peace x

[@tylermacdonald8924]

God I just hope so badly for a sustainable future

[@FoenyxFeather]

Gen Z videos like this inspire me to look up more, get out of my own world, and foster hope. When I was a teen in the early 2000s we melted the fuck down into a teen angst puddle of isolation and self-pity. At least, that's how I recall my teens. Our reaction to some of the more hardened boomers who raised some of us was to create a strong wave of emo culture and edgy humor. I wish we had all noted more of the global urgency back then, and been able to get out of our own way to take more action. This approach is correct, we can't sit around wallowing in existential angst, we've got to do something to help ourselves and start taking power back into our own hands.

[@sherbet3657]

Being an early gen z kid and seeing the massive change in all tech and everything you mentioned and now actually thinking about it is kinda jarring

[@celesthetic_]

I love all your videos and am enjoying every minute ❤ I hope you keep creating such necessary video essays.

[@individualm6712]

My kid said this was a downer. I appreciate it's realism very much.

[@walrus4046]

Recommended book: Leigh Phillips, Austerity Ecology And The Collapse-Porn Addicts.

[@sionnalynch9543]

amazing job on this video:)

[@panhradu]

Sense of doom and apocaliptic depression is so popular betwen Gen Z because its izi way how to skip personal responsibility.

[@mogourmetzulu213]

This channel has been the answer I have been looking for !

[@dkoliadis7324]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@Fr3nchfrii]

And millennials because there's some of us who have realized we were blind as well and in your camp of anarchists. Thank you for your messages and all the work you put into getting it out. ❤🤘

[@delve_]

Hey, do you have a Mastodon account? I'd love to follow you over there if you do!

[@Andrewism]

I do, though I hardly use it. My instance was on sunbeam.city, but I seem to be having trouble logging back in though :/

[@delve_]

@@Andrewism Well, if you ever manage to get back on there, think you might send me a message and let me know so I can follow you? I'd appreciate it. You could just reply to this comment again.

[@Andrewism]

@@delve_ I got back on! sunbeam.city/@drewthewho

[@delve_]

@@Andrewism Nice! Thanks :D

[@delve_]

@@Andrewism Hey, you oughta put the link to your Masto on your about page as well. For anyone else who wants it!

[@markd.9042]

Gen Z here. Fighting for our lives, our security, our sadety, our freedom, and for the planet msy be getting easier in some ways, but it's going to get harder in others. All those things I mentioned up there? Theyre intertwined. We cannot fight for one without fighting for all rhe others and expect to succeed in our endeavors. Our collective energy is indeed our hope, and our circumstances are varied as are the paths to a better future for all. This is an excellent video.

[@haunted7937]

I’d like to thank my 7th grade English teacher for making our final paper on the working conditions garment workers face. That changed my life

[@MrCricri123456]

I genuinely believe we must also learn how to arm and defend ourselves. Our demands are radical to the status quo and will be meet with force.

[@justbirdthings]

I'm a millennial but I relate to the climate anxiety. Millennials need to band together with gen z in this fight. We can't just leave the entire fight to the young people. Plus both generations are going to live through this nightmare.

[@regenerative-stories]

i loved it. I am a teacher, my studetns are G-Z... i would love that they understand English enough to get the message. Maybe the subtitles can help. thanks for your efforts

[@lyudmilapavlichenko7551]

Great video.

[@fulldeckphilosophy5390]

Found this on the r/collapse subreddit. Hope get attention, try collaborating with Sisyphus55, Pursuit of Wonder, Academy of Ideas , Our Climate change, and more.

[@toyotaprius79]

Yes sisyphus55! And cheers for sharing out others that I haven't known before, I'm not getting any luck with "our climate change" however :( Perhaps there's collaboration potential in also noncompete, paul morrin, Pindex (stephen fry voices in it damning brexit), transport evolved, Mexie oh and Kathrin, she is the damn bees knees kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKTLeGOBiNuNarM Hell! why not any of the big breadtubers, contra or the Gravel Institute?

[@WarioWareCEO]

As GenZ myself I dont accept those tiktoks...im just disapointed in my own generation

[@JamieW907]

I'm not saying I want to do anything because I do but it feels very hard to fight against out capitalist and racist corrupt government that out world it built on, I feel like my hands are tied just trying to get rights as a trans woman I feel like I'm on my own in life trying hard just to get basic things.

[@barbarapomeroy6497]

*internet hugs, if wanted* you’re not alone

[@wefubmadness1922]

Future choir director here. I want to balance a teaching of music with a real community service. Using song to tell the stories of the disenfranchised, using choir funds for charity when we can, helping lower class kids who fall with us. Break the things that stop kids from joining choir one by one. I want to show kids in the music sphere music theory from their cultures and composers who share their identities.

[@wefubmadness1922]

Music and choral learning should be about reclamation, unity, and fostering a community.

[@foxyplayz4014]

Friend how old are you ? me: spy kids toys ads flashbacks

[@bluelotus.society]

5:08 What's wrong with Divergent??

[@keeb__]

I try so hard to get my peers to attend protests but it feels so pointless. They just dont want to engage in these important topics and I dont really understand why you could be so apathetic to the state of things. I feel so hopeless.

[@benezer5155]

I am happy to say I have watched to the end

[@erasdrey107]

🔥Love your videos! I feel we fail to see that the main problem is this capitalistic consumer society. Climate change is a bit too narrow and a whole lot too vague. Why are most "green" movements focusing on carbon emissions? Emissions are just the side effect of over-consumption. They don't even take into account solar activity and other "external" forces that influence earth's climate. A lot of it is also cyclical, like the ice ages, we prob are due to have another cataclysm anytime soon too. We need to change the political and economic system, not create more laws and taxes that create greater restraints and control by the ruling class, which they were the ones that got us in this mess to begin with.

[@Joe--]

First 5min are great, saving to finish watching later

[@yiannchrst]

I think this video is very important! I hope everyone could watch this and understand it!

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

Dear Gen Z: please beat up the kids the kids in your class who spend too much time on reddit.

[@btarczy5067]

Step 1 one on the agenda must be to lower Liberty Island by a few meters and tilt the statue.

[@willowcdxx3896]

i'm fucking terrified :DDD

[@thekingoffailure9967]

Zoo wee mama are we all fucked. LMFAO who did this??!?? 😂😂😂 🔥🔥🌍🔥🔥 Hint: The rich 😯🤑🤡🤢😤👿💯💯💯💯

[@thegreatjay1245]

What's the name of the background piano music.

[@dandelion_fritters]

I’m on the younger end of the millennial generation, 3ish years too old to count as Gen Z, but everything here still applies to my experience. It’s nice to know that there are other people who want to clean the world so WE ALL can have better futures. Not just the monetary wealthy few. I imagine greed like that would be a crime punishable by rehabilitation and reeducation. Severity, especially if you damaged the environment and loss of life could result in exile or prison or public death for the worst offenders. It’s hell, frankly. I dont want this for anyone, it always brings out the worst in people.

[@torcaace]

Nice vid

[@Osterbaum]

Can confirm that (many) millennials definitely understand.

[@TheMissannamakeup]

Yo 🤘 I think what we should do too is to learn more about financial education by ourself with internet and books for exemple (like Robert kiyosaki he is a capitalist so he know what he talks about), even if we don't want to be in the "game" of capitalism, we are in, and I think it's very important today that the People really understand these rules, and how it works. Because it's only about that a game with winners and losers... And referer ourselves to the universal law like the law of attraction for exemple. Take conscience of our power we are unlimited, like the song no limits said for the tekno fans haha. I think today we have to search the informations for being aware of how this world really works, why 99% are just "pions" for others. If you want to buy a product, ask yourself why do I want that? Stop buying shits and ask ourself if it's really important. Focusing on what it's important. Learn about things, educate yourself. Ask yourself. What is your mission down here? What do you deeply want for yourself? Who is your true self? Each day we are free to do what we want, don't be afraid of saying NO of what society wants you to become. Blessing from France (sorry if my English is not perfect so lmao) 🙏

[@gittevandevelde2208]

I am 21, was 19 when this video came out and very much a gen Z'er I've been somewhat into sustainability since I was 17, having discovered things like zero waste and sustainable fashion on the internet. I am European and walked in the many 2019 youth climate marches. Back then I had very surface level, black & white knowledge, and was also a little pain in the ass about complaining to my parents they shouldn't use x (genuinely practical) single use product and such. Generally not very nice, but as a young person who has been growing up with ideas of the end of the world due to climate change and is suddenly getting confronted with it, oh well. Also note that I am white and live in a basic suburb. My dad and brother are somewhat into nature, and my close family and my parents acquantainces in general are left-leaning. Through getting more experience in life and doing more research I've been figuring out that the problem is much, much, much more complicated - or well, actually not, the culprit is obvious: the intertangled mess of patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism we find ourselves in. But that seems so much bigger and more complicated to fight than just go to a climate march and say "build some wind turbines!!!! Buy bamboo toothbrushes!!!!!! "(still use one) That, plus I have for a long time undiagnosed neurodivergence and general social anxiety. Due to changing schools several times and then covid when in college, with few to none of my classmates being on the same wavelength on me, I don't actually have a group of peers I can organize things with and fight the system with (and my anxiety doesn't help), so I very much feel like I can't do much. I am not the person to randomly go guerilla gardening with my friends (what friends lol) or something, and living in a small country there is near zero chance I will randomly find someone in online communities I vibe with that lives close. Feeling of hopelessness very much counts for me, while at the same time having tons of guilt because I am a white european living in a suburb. However, watching these videos and reading the comments does make me feel less alone. I still live with my parents, my dad is into nature and also wants to let our backyard go wild (we have lots of bees yey), nature inspector is his job even, but together with my mom they're just basic social democrats (my mom is also lowkey depri and overwhelmed by all the stuff) when I move out I might do some...stuff, and maybe I will have some friends, but not sure when or how or what. My skillset is also very limited to fashion - I can sew, quite well, and make custom fit clothes, and I try to implement sustainability by using natural if possible more local fibers, making versatile garments, and using up my scraps. I'd like to one day be able to go put some flax produced here where I live though, and spin and weave and naturally dye it myself. In intricate prints with hidden messages perhaps.

[@emilianogv2978]

Tu habilidad con la ropa justamente es una de las habilidades que serán indispensables, piensa en nuevas formas de ver la ropa, tu lucha es directamente contra el fascismo fashion

[@apassmore6573]

I'm a gen Z adult (19 exactly) and I'm proud of us, we're the ones who will have to clean this shit up and quickly at that.

[@KarlSnarks]

"Corporal punishment before it was banned in schools" Wait are we still talking about Zoomers!? 😂

[@justaguy6216]

10:34 what is meant by post industrial? How do we have production without industry. I understand de-growth/post growth. But what is post industrial?

[@brenoaugustonascimentodeso632]

There are some social scientists that are developing some great researches about that! Here at Latin America, authors as the equatorial Alberto Acosta and the german Ulrich Brand elaborated together a book called “Post-extractivism and degrowth: Exits from the capitalist labyrinth”, where they discourse about the extractives economy here, its global aspects and suggesting ways out of it. Also, Ulrich Brand has collaborated with Markus Wissen on “The Imperial Mode of Living” about the everyday life on the Global North and its function on Ecological Crisis of Capitalism. Start with these!

[@hal8437]

Thank you for the video 😊 very inspiring

[@monke3719]

There is more we could be doing but honestly what’s the point. Even when we try with everything we’ve got to hit the problem it’s barely even a scratch. Most of us have given up and lost all hope the billionaires and politicians have been working against our efforts for decades and don’t seem to care. I wanna believe that we have hope or at the very least say “we had a good run” but I have no hope and we didn’t have a good run we killed ourselves and we took everything with us. I’m very scared for the future if there even is one I truly believe humanity is doomed.

[@SharpieWaterOfficial]

Hahahahaha I’m filled with a sense of existential dread

[@johnkop4]

You know that the global 10% has an income of 90k+ right? That's about an average western world household.

[@sydneydaum9204]

this is exactly why I want to become a homesteader