Why baby boomers' grandchildren will hate them

[LisaM]

4. Generational bashing is wrong. It's the greedy people in any generation and unfettered capitalism

that's to blame (I'm not against capitalism per se, but I believe in strong regulation).

The writer must have missed the long and informative article in the New York Times Magazine a number of months ago, discussing how Anne Gorsuch (yes, Neil's mother) and the Reagan administration dropped the ball on climate change legislation - and did it deliberately. And they were not Boomers.

Baby Boomers like Al Gore and John Kerry were determined to fix it - but were mocked for lacking charisma and not running good campaigns - even the Green party, or so-called Green Party, I should say, because they ran a candidate against Al Gore, about the greenest candidate ever - got on board with the mantra that there was no difference between Bush and Gore. Al Gore would have been tremendous at combating climate change. Al Gore, the Boomer.

Of course there are people from pre-milliennial generations who contributed to climate change - and there are still people who do, the rideshare generation whose cars are creating huge traffic jams in cities like San Francisco, the single-serving coffee people who need a new pod for every cup of coffee - the people who spend all day charging their devices but somehow don't think that electricity could come from coal-burning plants, the people who use Amazon Prime on a daily basis - I could go on, but what I'm really trying to say is that we are all in this together and always have been. So let's not make it about generations, let's make it about consumerism, and the forces of market capitalism, and the propping up of oil states at the expense of alternative forms of energy that's been going on since the 1950s. Quit the circular firing squad. I am a (late) boomer. I ride the bus. I make my own coffee at work in our espresso machine so I won't use cups at Starbucks. I walk to the grocery store. I cannot remember the last time I took a trip in the car by myself - when I do go in the car, it's always as a carpool. We are in a too-small apartment because density is supposedly good for the environment. I don't have kids, so luckily no one can train my grandchildren to hate me, but articles like this stick in my craw.

https://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers-millennials-climate-change-generations-2017-7