Fiddling while Rome burns ?
 

Fiddling while Rome burns

That was a headline in a local paper yesterday. It was used to describe our Prime minister going campaigning while inflation hit a new record high.

Getting back to your point, the terminator said it best "it's in your nature to destroy yourselves".

I have two kids. I'm scared of what their future will look like.

To paraphrase Kanan Jarrus, all I can do is what I've been doing, that is train them the best I could.

I don't think you took the cowardly way out. The answer is just too long and too complicated to have to explain to kids that age. They're too young to understand politics, let alone identity politics. Then there is the religious aspect, and the greed. It's a tough thing to explain to an adult, let alone a child.

I don't know, break it down into bite sized bits? Start with the easy one, money. People will kill to get rich, even if it means killing kids (i.e. sweatshops).

Maybe you could say it's like candy. Generally speaking, candy isn't good for our health, but we still want it because it tastes good.

We selfishly want lots of things that are killing the planet (or other people) and we don't have systems in place to prevent people from getting them.

Inflation will rise and fall until the officials get their heads together