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Human health cost of global warming isn't exactly cheap. Delayed costs are still costs. It's just my generation and my kids who have to pay while my parents gen
by gtvwill 3y ago
Human health cost of global warming isn't exactly cheap. Delayed costs are still costs. It's just my generation and my kids who have to pay while my parents generation reaped the rewards and profits up front.
I, like many of my peers feel like we are being grifted by the boomer generation.
- The_Colonel 3y agoYou're also reaping the advantages produced by the boomer generation in technology, medicine etc. to which they themselves did not have access (or had, but much later in life). In any case, it's disappointing to see how people are so quick to jump at any opportunity to stereotype and hate a group of people, this time not identified by their skin, but their date of birth...
- gtvwill 3y ago[flagged]
- screye 3y agoThat bit is obvious. The next generation benefits from the innovations of the previous generation. But boomers knew about global warming, and refused to do even the bare minimum to help curb it. (More highways, gas guzzlers galore, effectively ban nuclear, anti sustainable urban development) Even the one positive assertion comes with asterisks. The boomers oversaw a lengthy defunding of federal programs while wealth kept accumulating at the very top of this nation. So the resulting economic benefits haven't been all that useful to the rest of America. Ofc, no individual bears the sin of an entire era. But we need to recognize the inherent selfishness of that era nevertheless.