But they did elect the politicians who caused the damage. A majority, anyway.

Older generations also elected FDR four times and created the only social safety nets we have, created the EPA, eliminated smog, cleaned up our rivers, created the endangered species list, etc.

I'm getting really sick of how easily some of you fall for these obvious divide and conquer tactics. Wake the fuck up and actually think critically for once. Climate change is far more of a class issue than generational one.

Conservatives blame immigrants and minorities for their problems, liberals blame old people. People are fooled so fucking easily but I bet you think you're so much smarter than magats.

And Gen-Z helped elect Trump in 2024.

Saying that problems are because if a certain group of people is just dumb analysis. It is always about broader systems of power. Capitalism has it's ways to bend democracy to it's will.

The ruling class wants you to blame the elderly for the problems in the world. Because then you aren't focused on the real issues.

If we really wanna fix problems instead of fighting each other, we need to really stop bigotry in all it's forms and start becoming class conscious.

So by your nonsensical logic the current young generation is at fault for ceding more power than have been ceded in a long time to fascist oligarchs in the US.

It is plain bullshit nonsense. And you have gobbled up all of the ageism propaganda created by the oligarch propagandeers to make you completely forget the actual issue of class war.

It’s the continued support and denial instead of contrition that makes this meme fine for me. Don’t want to be targeted? Make it right.

The older generation ceded our power to the wealthy.

Did they actually? Or are you just saying that?

it was their own short sighted greed and often bigotry that allowed them to go along with it

Did we take any kind of vote on our actual energy policy? Did we collectively decide to build highways over railways or big trucks over dense housing blocks at some point?

Who decided to tear up the streetcars?

The Americans who believe their democracy is real are as bad as the ones who believe climate change is fake.

So no young people voted for Trump? A lot of the no kings protestors are old people.

I'm not enjoying being in the first generation to be poorer than my parents'. This is not a distraction; it's a big fucking deal.

My parents, personally, have not really contributed to the problem. They vote sensibly, they have been climate conscious (especially my dad) for wayy longer than most people. But those are individual stories amongst the overall picture.

On the wider point, being on the picket lines fighting for workers' rights doesn't have much bearing on whether you then voted to take money out of the public services your parents created, which you benefited from, so that you could enrich yourself personally.

I think you might have a slight fuzziness in your history here, too. The labour movement, at least in my country, reached its peak in the first decades of the 20th century. Boomers were born around the 50s, reaching adulthood around the 70s. We already had a minimum wage, 8 hour days, weekends, paid holiday, sick leave, etcetera. We already had a welfare system. Around this time, the "post-war economic consensus" was being dismantled, and public services were being sold off to private investors. If we're just looking at the resolution of generations, the prototypical grandma wasn't doing the things you're talking about - they were done by her mother or grandma or others.

Again, this is a broad brush with room for variation within generations. But there's a section of the online left that wants to remove all responsibility for anything, especially climate change, from ordinary people. As if we can but do the bidding of billionaires. But if a population votes for climate change, or votes to dismantle public services, they deserve the blame.

...and did nothing to establish todays wide spread organizations, networks, ideas, and engagement. History doesn't exist!

No they fucking didn't. Fascists voted for it, not age.