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Too Many Other Problems To Care About Climate Change?

7 min readApr 9, 2024

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Over 40 million American’s suffer from food insecurity. Over 75% of Gen-Z are hesitant to invest long-term. Only 20% of Americans are satisfied with the US Government. Roughly 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

With so much going on in our day-to-day lives, when does someone who is suffering from food insecurity have the capacity to care about climate change? The short answer is that they don’t. The steadily growing wealth disparity has created a society that benefits a very small percentage and neglects the rest. That’s the trap we’re in. So, how do we break out of it?

Source: Posted by Barchart on X

Seemingly in correlation to the widening gap in wealth disparity, public trust in government has decreased to an all time low. It would be rational to see direct cause and effect here…

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Stephen Haugse
Stephen Haugse

Written by Stephen Haugse

NYU Stern MBA and Pro-Connection Technology Advocate. Outdoor Recreation is our best hope to battle climate change.

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