Generational Divide Over Climate Action Isn T Real Study Finds
The most controversial post I ever wrote for the Mother Nature Network—now mercifully archived but on the Wayback Machine here—was a discussion of Bruce Gibney’s book “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America” in which he blamed the Baby Boomer generation for just about everything wrong in the world, including the climate crisis. Gibney wrote: “Unlike acid rain, which had immediate impacts on Boomers’ quality of life and was therefore swiftly addressed, climate change is a problem whose consequences will fall most heavily on other generations, so far too little has been done....