1984 it is then

Try "wee free men" and the other Tiffany aching books

They're made for kids his age

I will try and keep them in mind, but I don't think i will even try.

Then he'll be asking to read the vimes books on his own

Don't give him 1984, he'll prolly hate it at that age 😄

that and the tech in 1984 is stright up vintage now.

"oh the screens can see you, and they are how large?"

haha hmmm ya

I listened to that one while i was driveing, the 5min hate or whatever stright up freaked me out.

But children are very good at grasping concepts

So they can ignore very well when reality doesn't match fiction

Or rather

They can handle it well

Pratchett liked the term "lies to children"

Things that are correct enough to give the right idea

But not necessarily true

Like I think therefore I am?

Yeah

"the earth is a sphere"

Or things like "the rain comes from clouds" true, but not the full story

the real answer is it's kinda sphere shaped, but not quite.

funny thing that, a while back it dawned on me that the idea that global warming would lead to drought is kinda silly.

if the oceans are warmer then more water will evaporate from them, and become clouds, and then rain.

also, the clouds make the area much cooler most of the time, so that system on it's own kinda becomes a global thermostat.

The earth tends to self regulate on an average on 2-4° variance. We're currently right in the middle of that swing. And Everytime the earth experienced a spike in warmth humanity has experienced a massive leap in the complexity of our societies

Actual global warming is good

so one might even say that the earth being warmer is better for us?

who would have thought! /s

Geologist and archeologists mostly

that was one of the other things that had dawned on me a while back, if the earth were to warm up so the arctic circle was growable land wouldn't that be good for the world because that is a lot of growable land now.

I want to say something like a 3rd of our land or so is just frozen and nearly useless to us.

We had that not too long ago geologically speaking, the medieval warm period

Greenland was actually green when it was settled

Nah, you're making that up. Green... land, it's only in the name.
Why would they call a land green, that's green.

could have been medieval marketing?

Idk, Iceland was green back then too, still called it Iceland

what are they gonna say once they get there and it's an ice sheet?

someone got the name cards mixed up?

During warm periods, the ice sheets disappear over the course of like a week. It's actually a very fast process. They've been able to determine this from the ice cores

The historical climate timeline is no longer measured in millions of years