Buckley, Cara. “Ok Doomer and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late.” New York Times., 22,
March, 2022. Section A, 11.

Cara Buckley, a reporter for the New York Times, covered the actions of young “social influencers” on Twitter
and Instagram who are fighting the “Doomer” mindset that the war on climate change is already lost. The article “Ok Doomer” shows that there are people in the world and in our community who believe that the planet is beyond saving. Meaning that there is nothing that we can do in order to stop this global problem. The specific discourse community is relevant to my interpretation of the climate fiction story "The Grandchild Paradox" because the whole reason this story is based in this setting is because the now old "Tops" gave up on saving the planet as they believed that everything was inevitable. As stated in the text "[t]hose old guys in the Tops, you know the worst thing they did? They gave up. They thought it was all inevitable" (pg. 9). Kimmy said exactly what Cara believes, showing the relevance of Cara's article "Ok Doomer".

An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, performances by Al Gore, Paramount Classics, 2006. 

An Inconvenient Truth is a famous documentary that educated Americans and viewers world-wide about global warming. Made in 2006, it’s based off former Vice President Al Gore’s book of the same title. The
documentary shows how human-caused climate change will continue to impact viewers in the near future, by
showing evidence that it already has. It includes statistics behind how warmer temperatures create super storms like Hurricane Katrina, lead to melting ice caps that will cause oceans to rise and hundreds of millions of people to become climate refugees. His argument is relevant to my interpretation of the climate fiction story "The Grandchild Paradox" because it warns the people of the issues of Global Warming. It's warning people that if we don't change, horrible things will happen. Why would they warn the public if there was nothing we could do about it. The whole reason the documentary was made, was because there is something we can do about it. We can change the path that we are currently on and we can save our planet.

An Inconvenient Truth warns us of the dangers of our futures while helping us understand that we can change. While Cara shows the dangers of us believing that it is all inevitable. We can change the current path our planet is on if we all do our part and don't do the worst thing that the old people in the Tops did, and that's give up.