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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/TuneGlum7903 on 2025-10-10 22:00:07+00:00.

Yet a body of polls show that (ONLY) somewhere between 62% and 74% of Americans think that increases in the Earth’s temperature over the last century are mainly or somewhat due to “pollution from human activities”.

While more than 99.9% of scientific studies since 2012 agree: Humans have caused climate change. — Cornell University 2021

In America, the science you believe in depends on who you vote for.

Even people who do think they they will be “harmed” by Climate Change, often think that it will be LATE this century before it becomes “severe”. Like in the 2070’s or 2080’s. Which, if you are 30 or older, means you have a reasonable likelihood of dying before “Climate Change” becomes “Climate Crisis”.

For those who are five to twenty five, “GenZ”, the Climate Crisis is going to be the rest of their lives. Their “best years”, when the world wasn’t dying, are already behind them. Ahead lies only gradual breakdown, war, migration, and ruin.

Those being born today, this year, are Gen Omega. The “End of the Line” Gen. The first kids born, not in the golden age of their elders but in it’s twilight and collapse.

For children being born today, the Climate Crisis is going to be their “defining reality”. They will be 75 in 2100. Our actions up to this point have sentenced them to live with that, for “the entirety of their lives”.

Here’s how much the dialog has shifted in the last few years. I USED to get asked fairly often, “How much warming do you think will happen this century”?

Lately, I have been getting asked, “How much warming do you think will happen by 2050”?

DO I THINK +3°C OF WARMING BY 2050 IS POSSIBLE?

TLDR: Yes, I do.

+3°C of warming by 2050 IS POSSIBLE NOW.

If you want to argue for a longer timeframe that’s fine.

It could be 2055.

Or 2065.

Or 2085.

No matter what, +3°C of warming is what’s coming.

That’s the future of Gen Omega.