What Can You Tell a 17 Year Old Who’s Afraid of Dying from Climate Change?
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That they don't owe the world anything. The people and systems around them have basically failed to ensure them a future, and therefore, they do not owe their time to any of these people or systems.
Those systems failed precisely because people have been told what you suggest here for the last three decades or more.