[umvi]

> "I want a big picture, a grand goal that we strive towards. Something noble that we yearn for"

In fact this is not unique to millennials but is an age old struggle of humanity where religion is discovered, abandoned for one reason or another, then rediscovered again once secularism/nihilism doesn't provide the fulfilling sense of purpose everyone yearns for, ad infinitum

[imtringued]

This is absurd. Even if climate change is just a feel good farce it would at least help people pretend that they have a goal. Instead we do absolutely nothing, we are scared of losing our jobs and having nothing to do while simultaneously having this mountain of tasks in front of us that we won't even consider touching.

[umvi]

It turns out that people don't just want a "mountain of tasks" to help them "pretend that they have a goal"... that just fuels the feelings of purposelessness. They want their existence and life itself to have meaning and purpose.