Figures and previews from the forthcoming IPCC AR6 (due out in July) are starting to come out. They're not looking great. Limiting warming to 2 degrees C or less is now virtually impossible, as even the most optimistic net carbon zero projections put us at 2.1 degrees of warming by 2100. More realistic target is now in the 2.5-3.5 degrees of warming range, which is likely to be extremely bad for a lot of people.
The authors of the IPCC report suggest that only an "immediate and radical transformation" of the global economy and governance would allow us to avoid the worst of the oncoming climate catastrophe. This kind of language is a marked difference from earlier IPCC reports, and reflects a growing sense of urgency and impending doom within the climatology community broadly.
Kinda a wild shot in the dark but I would imagine it would be pretty tough to accept that your generations lifestyle and politics has inescapably doomed their children and grandchildren. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit though, maybe they just actually don't give a fuck that they burned the world down.
It's this one. Shout out to the cool boomers as I don't want to generalize an entire generation, but the prevailing mentality is that children are property. It's how you get the whole thing about how the schools are teaching the wrong thing and whatever the youth, i.e. anyone who isn't a boomer, is doing is bad, even outside moral panic.
To them, someone dying their hair blue is basically their car starting to rust.