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6. "Boomers" have not melted the ice caps.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2025, 11:44 AM

Jun 14

I read Silent Spring in 1963 and have been a loud, active, environmentalist ever since.

Why are we blamed for all the problems of the world? My parents (b.1919 and b.1921) were pro-Vietnam war, pro-plastic, pro-nuclear, pro-insecticide and other things most people that I knew in my generation were against.

Geez. We are getting old. Can't the bashing wait a few more years?

I have three twenty-something grandkids and I do appreciate the struggles the world has for them, but even they realize we tried.

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