What Can You Tell a 17 Year Old Who’s Afraid of Dying from Climate Change? Part 1

How to live a meaningful life in a time of turmoil

Steve Genco
9 min readAug 29, 2023

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A view of a post-apocalyptic landscape from the popular video game, Fallout 4. The scene shows the player’s first glimpse of the post-nuclear world they now inhabit.
A screen grab from the popular video game Fallout 4, a favorite among gaming youth. This is the post-apocalyptic view that greets survivors emerging from Vault 111.

I originally published this post as one long article, but decided to divide it into two slightly more bite-sized pieces. This is Part 1. Part 2 is here.

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Steve Genco

Steve is author of Intuitive Marketing (2019) & Neuromarketing for Dummies (2013). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.