How Younger Generations Might Inadvertently Destroy Civilization
We’ve grown comfortable blaming Armageddon on Boomers. But what if Gen Y and Gen Z bring about the end of days?
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6 min readMar 28, 2023
We didn’t need Greta Thunberg shaking her tiny fist at the United Nations to believe Boomers epitomize selfish consumption at the cost of the entire planet.
Greta just put an angry face to what many felt.
The thing is, even the most hysterical climate alarmists don’t say we’ll be dead in ten years.
- True, they recently said if we don’t reduce carbon emissions to caveman-like levels soon, the sun will slowly cook us to death.
- But the damage will play out by the end of the century, not in our lifetimes.
We’re so focused on long-tail climate risk that we may be missing a much greater risk right under our noses. What’s that, you ask? It’s the ever-declining percentage of people working and paying taxes.
