An intergenerational crime against humanity

This title is so silly.<p>Looked at it through the &quot;climate change&quot; lense it means that the late 1700s - early 1800s English industrialists should have just called it quits when it came to make use of abundant English coal, all in the interest of &quot;climate change&quot;. Of course, that would have also meant no Industrial Revolution and hence future generations not enjoying the benefits of modernity (such as antibiotics and the like, for example), because there would have been no modernity without the Industrial Revolution.

Not sure why the article was flagged, maybe because it is Australia specific ?<p>Anyway I think it does apply to the world as a whole and I think at this point we either have a controlled fall of living standards or an uncontrolled fall. Our choice. If governments started working on this 50 years ago as US Pres Carter wanted to, we would not be here.<p>In the US a vote one way will pretty much guarantee an uncontrolled fall. A vote the other way, <i>maybe</i> something will be done, but current evidence point against that.<p>The quickest way in the US to reduce CO2 is stop subsidizing the Oil Industry and allow Auto Fuel prices to double or triple. But as we see, the party that says it will do the right thing is doing all it can to keep prices low.<p>Right now, like the scientists said, the future ls looking very bad right now.

Am I the only one who is worried about the widespread proliferation of the boomer hate? What&#x27;s even the point? Can&#x27;t help but see parallels with Jews being scapegoats - hoarding property, holding political power, in general being guilty of everything wrong in the world.<p>It also seems quite hypocritical - I don&#x27;t see young voters overwhelmingly voting environment parties, but even those who do enjoy their frequent flights to exotic destinations and likely have a higher carbon footprint than boomers at the same age.<p>It&#x27;s an unfortunate reality that people will take the hedonistic way and rather enjoy life to the fullest rather than worry about abstract problems lying in the future. But that&#x27;s common to all generations, and just throwing all guilt on a specific generation won&#x27;t help solving it.