Posted on 01/08/2020 9:18:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Boomers: It’s not too late. You can be heroes in the story of climate change.
You might not like to hear it, as many of you have long told pollsters you consider yourselves environmentalists, but collectively you have exacerbated the climate crisis more than any other generation.
Fossil fuels were cheap as you came of age and you burned too much of them. Your lifetime carbon footprint is so high you’re forcing kids born today to emit eight times less than you just to hit a modest goal. And you’ve never taken climate change as seriously as the generations behind you.
Your generation put yourselves before the rest of us.
Over the past 60 years, your generation has become the politically dominant force in the West and the United States, in particular. You’re a large cohort. You vote.
Many of you also had a lot of good luck out of the gate. You entered the strongest labor market on record that provided livable wages even for those who did not attend college (which was a fraction of the price as it is now). You then did well in the housing market, turning cheap houses into lucrative sources of equity.
The climate emergency is getting worse and it’s happening faster than scientists feared. Land and oceans are getting hotter. Seas are rising faster. And we’re seeing a trend in more ferocious storms and wildfires, and devastating droughts and floods.
The problem isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The solutions are clear: We need to burn fewer fossil fuels, restore forests instead of destroying them, eat less meat, and consume less overall.
The problem isn’t that we don’t have people who are calling for change. The problem is political will, which requires political power. Your generation has it.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Laura McGann is the editorial director of Vox.com. She ran Vox's politics and policy coverage during the 2016 election. She previously worked as an editor at Politico, where she oversaw a variety of coverage, including money and politics, Congress and domestic policy.
I highly doubt “boomers” even know what the hell “Vox” is or would waste time taking orders from a childless cat lady.
Anyone who believes that there’s a “climate emergency” should do their part and duct tape a plastic bag over their heads.
I already am a hero of climate change. I don’t believe a single word of it.
Blow it out your azz, you Greta wannabe.
How much more forests do we need?
You must vote Dem to repent for your eco-sins!
Sorry, VOX, but this boomer has forgotten more about physics/math than your sorry group of millennial losers could ever learn.
In short, you get an F. You are now working at one of the few positions that will pay for such low IQ crap.
Sit, stay, and tolerate your positions which command absolutely no respect except by other millennials who couldn’t pass a fifth grade science test.
The climate emergency is getting worse and it’s happening faster than scientists feared. Land and oceans are getting hotter. Seas are rising faster. And we’re seeing a trend in more ferocious storms and wildfires, and devastating droughts and floods.
The problem isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The solutions are clear: We need to burn fewer fossil fuels, restore forests instead of destroying them, eat less meat, and consume less overall.
Where’s the picture of Goebbels?
The blue part it needs to be green!
To hell, you say. When you quit your global travel, buying clothes that where made by slaves in China - maybe, but no. I will not ever succumb to this lecture by little kids with laptops.
/src on/What Boomers getting all the attention again!!! From a cynical, misanthropic Generation Xer./src off/
Snowflakes: F*ck you
ok doomers.
we will get right on it.
Let us compare carbon footprints first then I will decide if I should bother listening to you first. I would imagine you consume more in one month than I do all year.
I am already a HERO!
And I don’t give a DUCK about this climate change theme/thing.
But I do remember lots of other things that would SUPPOSEDLY supposedly (sic) “save the world” over the years.
BOOM!!
Jerks like Bloomberg, Gates, and Kerry and his fellow billionaires need to stop buying houses around the world and flying back and forth to them.
The elites need to lead by example—otherwise fuggedaboutit!
Pure BS!
Global warming? Now it is Climate crisis and climate emergency.
Total BS!
> Boomers: It’s not too late. You can be heroes in the story of climate change. <
True enough. But not in the way the author thinks.
Boomers (and everyone else) should be appalled by how debate on this topic has been shut down. I, for one, am sick of seeing climate change discussions where ever person on the panel believes in man-made climate change.
Anyone who has taken even a basic science course should know that science is never settled. Debate should be more than just allowed. It should be actively encouraged.
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