Ha ha sure, 200 years of Industrial Revolution but it’s the “boomers” fault.
Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Memetic@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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modestmeme@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
50% of fossil carbon has been released in the last 30 years.
modestmeme@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is wrong. It’s 20-25%. And the last 50 years includes a whole bunch on non-boomers and a massive industrialization of Asia. WTF is up with you people and “boomers”? There’s always going to be old people. And all of them were formerly young people.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So it was gen z who did it then.
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Sure, sure, but in the US, they never forgave Johnson for the '68 civil rights act and managed to elect Republicans for 78% of the time from 1970-present.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
the US, they never forgave Johnson for the '68 civil rights act
Johnson passed the '68 Civil Rights Act, but failed to actively enforce it. The subsequent Nixon/Reagan Southern Realignment involved some of the most deliberate and calculated voter disenfranchisement in the country’s storied history of voter disenfranchisement.
Consequently, states like Texas and Louisiana and Georgia and Florida can host enormous pools of liberal and progressive voters who are blacklisted, caged, gerrymandered, or outright felonized. The lay (white) American only kinda-sorta understands it is happening (thanks to the tsunami of “Record High Crime!” news hysterics), while voter turnout rates stay abnormally low relative to their global neighbors.
What we saw following the Kennedy assassination in '64 was functionally a coup. Blaming “the American voters” for the subsequent composition of Congress and the White House makes about as much sense as blaming Egyptians for el-Sisi or Russians for Putin. This is a white settler government running an armed occupation, not a liberal democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
modestmeme@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“They” elected the Republicans? Voter turnout then and now says all ages were/are complicit in sitting on their hands. Boomer hate, though trendy and scores internet points, does nothing to resolve the current world situation and the future… Boomers are dying off rapidly. Whose fault will it be next…?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s survivorship bias. The folks who survived from 1946 to 2025 were in the economic cohort with the least stress, the most accumulated wealth, and the most egregious consumption habits. Can’t blame all the Americans who died of black lung in the coal fields or were left destitute after midwestern industrialization or got wiped out during the AIDS epidemic or from heart disease or smoker’s lung or COVID or the 40k car fatalities/year, cause they’re not around anymore.
Safe to assume anyone still around does, in fact, carry a disproportionate share of the blame.
0ndead@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
This. Modern climate change wasn’t really understood until the 70s.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
While partially true, we have known that greenhouse gasses contributed to climate change since the 19th century:
In the late 19th century, scientists first argued that human emissions of greenhouse gases could change Earth’s energy balance and climate. The existence of the greenhouse effect, while not named as such, was proposed as early as 1824 by Joseph Fourier. The argument and the evidence were further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838. In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated that the warming effect of the sun is greater for air with water vapour than for dry air, and the effect is even greater with carbon dioxide.
en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_climate_change_scie…
It is true, however, that our knowledge greatly increased in the 1960s and 70s.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
OP is regurgitating oligarch deflection. Oligarchs did this, age is completely irrelevant in this connection, and there will continue to be oligarchs in every single generation, unless something is done about it.
mhague@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Reminds me of when I got an ad showing intense heat and wildfires in my state, but the city names were AI generated Cyrillic text. Felt like a Russian was saying exactly that.
simplejack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Looks like that is mostly written in JPEG
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m feeling guilty for running my truck motor here at break for the A/C but then I remember all those private jets at Davos.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Cross post from a similar post.
serpineslair@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sure, sure it’s the “boomers” fault, not the fault of countless corporations. I’ll bet people are pretty much as damaging as they were four decades ago.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Boomer not want regulate oil company because then Boomer 401k go down.
Oh no!
Boomer vote for moron who make 401k go down anyway, Boomer house burn down / wash away in flood / hurricane.
Sad, indeterminate Boomer noises
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Except corporations aren’t some mythical deities. They are run by people, especially boomers
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
What generation was it that invented leaded gasoline and put asbestos in everything, again? 🤔
Oh yeah… The Greatest Generation.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The “Greatest Generation” are the parents of Boomers.
fafferlicious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The boomers have held the lever and power longer than any other generation, at least in America. It is their fault because they run the companies and they run the government.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Right but like our grandads? Like my grandad did that?