When I was 20 years old, back in 1965, there were people

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64. I think our generation was a disaster.

We elected Ronald Reagan twice.

We elected 3 terms of Bushes.

We elected Donald Trump, in many ways the avatar of Baby boomers.

Once we were past draft age, many of cheered for two oil wars.

We pretended that the answer to environmental problems was conservation while ignoring billions of impoverished people who needed more energy, not less, while we lived in bourgeois fantasy land.

We allowed trillions of dollars to be spent on effectively useless so called "renewable energy" even though it didn't work, isn't working and won't work to address climate change, with the result that the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide grew my over 100 ppm in our lifetimes. We did this while we allowed 2 billion people to lack access to even primitive sanitation.

Oh, and then, on top of all that, we filled the oceans with plastic and started grinding up the continent's bedrock to get the last drop of oil and gas, this while worshipping giant steel wind turbine towers that in less than twenty years will be just more useless waste for future generations to clean up, this in a world denuded of resources.

Maybe some of us feel entitled to congratulate ourselves for this behavior, but my feeling is that history will not forgive us, nor should it. Call me a cynic, but I am deeply ashamed of my pampered and spoiled generation of distracted, mindless sybartic consumers. We may have been the worst generation in American history.