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An Ode To Boomers

I read a scary article this morning. The Colorado River — a major water source for 7 states that include major agricultural areas — is drying up at its source. After increasingly warm and dry years, including last year when there was virtually no snow, the creeks that feed the Colorado River are running dry, and some major reservoirs are at 25% with no snow in the mountains this year to replenish them over the hot summer.

There will be people of course who deny it’s climate change. But I believe it takes a lot of denial to maintain that the huge spike in population (the Earth’s population has doubled in my lifetime) along with the related increase in carbon emissions isn’t having an impact. And it’s just scary as heck to think about because to me it increases the risk of worldwine famine, recession and war. I remember back in the early 2000s all the scary news articles that were coming out about the devastating effects of climate change we’d see by 2050. And now we are nearly there. Which means it will be accelerating now decellearating and we’re just getting started. In other words, buckle in.

How much I loved the movie “Don’t Look Up.” Because it’s actually really about climate change according to the maker, about how we call can see the devastating effects approaching (in the movie’s case an asteroid) but no one is really doing anything about it (except to financially capitalize on it) and the government is denying it’s a problem.

All of us, including me, are guilty of not doing anything about it other than fretting about it or posting about it or maybe trying our best to individually not AI (like that will save anything). I think this is largely because we don’t know how to do anything about it.

Which is why I want to give some credit to the Baby Boomer generation.

In the 1960s we have Vietnam. And other issues. And there were protests, and more protests, and sit ins, and more sit ins, and songs and songs and songs. And more protests. And it took 10 years. And lots of pain and even some deaths. But change finally started to happen.

So the Boomers actually figured out how to make change. And did it.

So I want to give kudos to them. And to say we all could learn something from them. And maybe we should take some lessons from them and rise up and demand some changes that may save our environment. Not posting about them (like I’m doing here). But actually doing something about them.

So here are to the Boomers. That take a lot of flack from us younger generations. But they also deserve some credit. And we should learn something from them about making real change before it’s too late.