Scott Tinker
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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I was trained to be terrified of, I was raised in the Cold War, trained to be terrified of nuclear.
In kindergarten, we would do drills where we would get under our kindergarten desk preparing for a nuclear attack.
Because I knew that desk would protect me from, even at six, I knew.
Maybe not, you know, I'm going to be real safe here.
But that's what I was trained.
Young people today have been trained to be terrified of climate change.
And I'll poll a class, how many, it happened.
A young man said, why does any of this matter?
We're all gone in 15 years anyway.
I said, what do you mean we're all gone?
He said, humans, we're gone.
We're toast.
He goes, it's an existential threat to humanity.
I said, you think in 15 years the human race is gone?
He goes, yes.
I'm not supposed to do this.
I said, how many think that?
Half of the hands in the room went up.
I went home so depressed.
Because this was nine years ago in a big university.
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