Damien Grant
OK snowflakes, let’s have at this. Boomers have stolen your childhood, have they? So traumatised by their tyranny you are reduced to crying in your safe spaces while hugging your emotional support hamster and wailing about the atmosphere.
Sweet Zeus; how pathetic. Let’s be clear, defining people by generation is as stupid as a vegan burger but since that is the way the game is now played, I’ll play.
The main complaint against granddad is his carbon emissions threaten life as we know it, he owns property and received free university while little Ashton has had to get a student loan.
It will surprise most young people, but the self-induced hysteria of climate crisis that they marinate their angst in does not make them unique.
During the Cold War, which ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the globe was always one misidentified flock of geese away from oblivion. This wasn’t some vague uncertainty about a sealevel rise at some future date, but instant incineration with minutes’ warning.
There were a half-dozen such scares, with the Cuban Missile Crisis being the best known. While waiting for death, Boomers gamely got on with growing up, buying property and getting Generation X ready for school.
Nuclear winter wasn’t the only dread being spread by doomsday merchants. In 1968 The Population Bomb was published, a widely believed Malthusian polemic that predicted mass starvation caused by the burst of
Let’s be clear, defining people by generation is as stupid as a vegan burger.
Damien Grant is a Generation X-er, who identifies as a Baby Boomer