Lucy Biggers

And that was my first exposure to it.

I think it was widespread.

And that was sort of the beginning of the climate

movement of my era where like i feel like my parents are baby boomers and they had like silent spring and like they were like hippie environmentalists and then for us it was the climate and al gore's that film and i will say i remember watching that film and i was overwhelmed afterwards with so much existential dread i remember sitting in like a photography class hanging out with my friends after and i was like thinking in my mind okay i'm 16 i have till i'm 26

Like, I have 10 years to live.

Based on whatever I took away from that film, that was what I thought.

I was wracked by anxiety, like, in my nervous system.

And then at the same time, my brain was kind of like, well, we're going to not think about that anymore.

We're going to throw that out of my mind.

I'm not going to think about this every day.

But something changed.

Like you're saying, this hopelessness.

Where then my new reality was there are certain rules I have about reality now.

We're ruining the planet.

We're burning the planet.

The planet is burning.

And it's not a matter of...

If it's a matter of when, but I guess my future self will have to deal with that, which now I know isn't even true, but like that was one film.

So again, the younger generation, they're getting this from their teachers as a curriculum.

And so they have it way more in their psyche than, than we do elder millennials that we are.