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Inheriting Climate Change

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving millenials with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. In his book A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America, Gen-Xer Bruce Gibney argues that the aging baby boomers who still rule the roost politically are holding up progress -- and it’s time they got out of the way. Carleen Cullen, Founder and Executive Director, Cool the Earth James Coleman, Student Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America Corina MacWilliams, Student Michael Ranney, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley Wilford Welch, Speaker on Sustainability and Resilience This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy and the environment.

0:36.6

Baby boomers have ruled the political roost for a quarter century.

0:40.3

So what's their gift to future generations?

0:43.3

A mountain of debt and a destabilized climate.

0:45.3

They're going to die before a climate probably has a very significant impact on their lives,

0:50.3

and I'd like to see them move on.

0:52.3

I think they're standing in the way of genuine progress.

0:56.1

But the young heirs to that boomer legacy aren't holding their breath. I've made this conscious

1:01.0

decision to dedicate, you know, everything. Every decision that I make, like, to mitigating

1:06.7

climate change, because to me it's the most important thing that I can do.

1:13.3

And some boomers are eager to lend a hand.

1:14.7

You know, we're not dead yet.

1:15.5

We can help it.

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