An Illuminating Error in My Recent Terrifying Mauna Loa Post.

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2. Thank you. I see the "kids" thing a little differently.

I convinced one of my sons to go to the front lines of doing something to address it.

It is unfair that it falls to his generation to address and clean up after our mistakes, of course, but a great generation is one that faces and addresses great problems.

There's that old cliche about "May you live in interesting times." He will, and my wife and I have seen to it that he has the tools to be in the fight.

It's bad, a lot of tragedy will ensue, and already has done so, but if nothing else, we have left them with knowledge. I have hope that they will succeed when the preternaturally stupid among us die off.

Our generation will have to face the judgement of history of course, which is not good for the memory of us, but if the future generations in criticizing what we did shake their heads in bemusement at our stupidity, they will have done great things.