I'd like to open with this tweet which I think captures some of the issues perfectly [1]: --- my aunt: why u kids always on them phones cant u have a real con

I'd like to open with this tweet which I think captures some of the issues perfectly [1]: --- my aunt: why u kids always on them phones cant u have a real conversation me: puts down phone crosses legs why did u melt the ice caps --- I'm a young adult, and I can say that anecdotally, if there's a strain in the relationship between my parents and myself it happens because I grew up in a world which is fundamentally different from the world they knew. This is partially due to technology, but it also comes from the fact that I (we) need to live in the world that "they" created. My mother didn't understand why I wanted to sell the stock in Exxon Mobil that I was given by my grandmother. But I am the one who will have to come of age in a world of rising sea levels and global temperatures, at least partially created by that firm's wilful deception[2]. I avoid animal products in meals for the same reason. But in trying to tell my parents this, they seem to believe I am disingenuous, or they don't take the issues as seriously as I do. Perhaps I'm reading too much into these issues. Perhaps that this is just the most recent iteration of the generational conflicts that have occurred throughout time. But it feels like the world I will inhabit is radically different from my parents', and I just don't know if there will ever be a good way to bridge that gap. [1] https://twitter.com/what_eve_r/status/681246826746523649 https://twitter.com/what_eve_r/status/681246826746523649 [2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-c...