Inheriting Climate Change

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🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger counterparts with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. Yet they still rule the roost politically. In his new book “A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America,” Gen-Xer Bruce Gibney argues that the aging baby boomers who make up most of congress are holding up progress -- and it’s time they got out of the way. How do we span the generation gap? What can boomers do to engage future generations and help empower them in the fight against climate change? Guests: Carleen Cullen, Founder and Executive Director, Cool the Earth Bruce Gibney, Author, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America Professor Michael Ranney, Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Education, U.C. Berkeley Wilford Welch, Speaker on Sustainability and Resilience This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 8, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:08.8	In his book, A Generation of Sociopaths, Gen X or Bruce Gibney argues that aging baby boomers are
0:14.9	holding up progress, and it's time they got out of the way. So they're going to die before
0:19.5	climate probably has a very significant
0:21.8	impact on their lives. You know, if our agents don't share the same goals and time horizons as we do,
0:27.5	then there's a risk of a serious mismatch. Should the boomers take their Cadillacs and beachfront
0:32.4	property and fade into the sunset? Sustainability expert Wilford Welch doesn't think so.
0:38.0	He believes that his generation owes it to their grandchildren not to lead the charge
0:41.9	against climate change, but to offer support.
0:44.5	Because we are the generation that has had the benefit of the fossil fuel generation,
0:49.6	and now we have a responsibility to give something back to those people who now are going to be at the
0:54.6	effect of it.
0:55.8	Inheriting climate change.
0:57.2	Up next on Climate One.
1:04.4	Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet?
1:08.2	Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about America's energy,
1:11.8	economy, and environment. Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists,
1:17.3	Republicans and Democrats, are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.
1:24.8	Today on the program, Greg talks with leaders working across generations to educate people
1:29.6	about the promise of clean energy and the perils of staying married to fossil fuels.
1:34.6	We'll start things off with former venture capitalist Bruce Gibney.
1:38.1	As a partner in the Founders Fund, Gibney champion the philosophy that startups should
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