Yes. Young/childless people don't understand this, but there is nothing that older people want less than to harm their children. They've just spent the last 50

Yes. Young/childless people don't understand this, but there is nothing that older people want less than to harm their children. They've just spent the last 50 years of their lives taking care of their posterity so that they could have a nice life in a nice world. Parents and grandparents are not just going to muck that up casually; it would counteract everything they've worked for. You can argue that the policies of the older generation have unintended consequences that will negatively impact younger generations, but it is not credible that the older generation as a class is intentionally selling out any part of their posterity that is currently living for short-term personal gain.