Well indeed,
See I'm raising my kids the way I was brought up and I live better than the baby boomers did, that's the way it goes, each generation lives better than the last.
The Boomers started out their lives on the tail end of the most destructive conflict in history, lived with rationing and shortages well into their childhood, diseases like polio and TB were still a problem etc etc yet they raised us properly and continued the work of building up a great country where we also had the chance to improve ourselves.
And yet....
They constantly sell us and their Grandchildren short if they think that somehow progress will stop and we'll be overwhelmed by petty issues like "climate change".
I know for certain that my kids and grandkids will grow up to be better off than I am now, that's the way my people work we constantly go forward, we're always on an upward trajectory.
Why do you believe that future generations of people with the same genetic makeup and intellectual capacity as us and who will have at their disposal technologies you and I can't even imagine will somehow drop the ball and die out?
The problem with this "disaster porn" is that a fixed future relies on a fixed past, the whole catastrophist angle is built around the world staying exactly as it is.
"We can't continue on like this or we'll destroy the planet!" NO!...We won't continue on like this because we're always progressing, we won't die out due to our failure to adapt to a slow, creeping climate change,it's unthinkable.
Our grandchildren will still be masters of their environment.

I don't agree Jay, at all. It "is" about progress, not the maintenance of the status quo.

Only experience brings knowledge of the past, and this changes your perspective of "what it is", that constitutes progress.

I know full well, that lives have improved and would never sell the capacity of my grandchildren short. Nor the contribution too that reality from those whom have gone before them.

In fact, it's obvious to me, that my grandchildren have capacity beyond my own. This does represent a progress of sorts JOM, but with childhood comes naivety through inexperience.

The Media today, have achieved power beyond their wildest dreams, having a "dis-proportionate influence upon the young", with less regard to the welfare of them, than to the masters they serve.

All you can really do is hope to inform the upcoming generations of things that you have experienced, and therefore "too you", are the known truths of your own lifetime.

I don't think denying the pace of climate change (through humankind) however, is helpful to my grandchildren's future Jay of Melbourne, even if you think they would be able to survive the effects of man made global climate change, because they are naturally (through progress), more able or worthy than older people when it comes too decision making and the future.

In fact a contribution can be made by all. And technology unlike attitude, bears no acrimony toward any group, based solely upon their age group.

If we allow such attitudes as age prejudice, to develop into normality in our society, we may as well, kiss our civility goodbye.