To wonder what we do now that will be frowned upon in 30-40 years time

[Lunar27]

This video is a prime example of how attitudes change. It seems we go just go from stupid to stupid all the time.

digg.com/video/this-1967-british-news-report-that-interviewed-drunk-drivers-before-it-became-illegal-is-bonkers

Another example is passive smoking. Obviously stupid and horrible to think we just smoked freely inside, thinking it was fine to breathe in smoke.

Fossil fueled cars will likely be the next as will idling cars outside of schools but I wonder what else we'll be scratching our heads over in future.

When you look back to the 1970s and see how widespread racism is it horrifies me. Attitudes thankfully change.

But on the other hand I think we’ll look back on the trans rights issue we see just now and think it’s crazy that we ever gave these people a platform. I hope in the future trans people are commonplace and live their lives in peace, but we should never countenance giving pre op trans women access to woman’s spaces.

Fast fashion, having plastic bags full of clothes delivered to our doors only for most of it to end up in landfill a few weeks later

Social media. It seemed like a great thing at the beginning but it rapidly went downhill. I think in 30-40 years time people will be horrified at its impact on mental health and how flippant we were about it - especially when it comes to teens.

Maybe around cigarette smoking - and filters (banning straws but those little chemical-laced buds hang around for years and years).

I wonder - and I say this while I'm on my phone as my children eat breakfast - whether it'll be our addiction to our phones, especially in front of children and giving them to young children

Surely just breathing. Everyone has a ‘right to be offended’ nowadays and more often than not they choose to invoke that right

Keeping emotionally intelligent cetaceans such as dolphins and orcas captive in small tanks.

-Eating meat/dairy/eggs.
-Animal entertainment - dolphins in tanks, zoos, horse racing etc
-Fast fashion
-Smoking
-Long haul flights unless we find a greener way
-Petrol/diesel powered cars
-Single use plastics

Assuming things get better not worse:

Burning fossil fuels
Allowing infectious diseases to spread rampantly
First past the post elections.

Maybe not in 40 years, but I think some day, people will look back and be aghast that we just let dogs shit all over our streets and parks.

People will look back on it like we now look at medieval people throwing slops out of their window.

Religion?

So much single use plastic/non recyclable packaging - i think it will all be gone/fully recyclable.

The care/support provided for people with mental illness. What's there is okay but i hope it improves and becomes much more widely available (and that looking back it seems mad that it was ever unavailable).

Our use of social media and particularly the way that it's not policed/monitored for minors.

I wish! But never.

Chemically castrating children.

Zoos.

Sterilising and mutilating children.

Came to see eating animal products, interesting to see others feel the same.

Carnage is an interesting mockumentary on the subject- It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

People plastering social media with pictures of their children. I think that generation will grow up and be horrified by it. If my parents shared so many pictures of me as a child on the internet I wouldn't be pleased. Once a picture is on the internet, even if it's on a private page, it's there for ever.

Or not ever

I will Never stop

I think buying bottled water will be frowned upon.

Designer dog breeding. Endlessly producing the same range of dogs (cockerpoo types) so each nuclear family can have one.

chicken ‘farming’ we eat a billion chickens each year in the uk. How many do you see outside?! The whole free range thing is bullshit.

I sincerely hope it will come to be seen as unaccetable that people were kept alive for years with no quality of life and poor care, rather than allowing them an earlier, peaceful and dignified death.

Quite few things look pretty unwise to me, but all of them are about generating revenue and so there are weighty vested interests. We no longer have a government that has any interest in protecting the public or improving society, so these things may not change

-Cars in general in terms of air pollution and just making the environment so awful
-The deregulation of gambling
-The massive consumption of ultra-processed foods (particular problem in UK)
-Letting kids have so much access to the internet/social media at a young age

Not sure meat will go entirely, but nitrates as a preservative is already on the way out.