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Gen Y and Gen X get it right on the environment; old folks don’t
Grist ^ | 7 Nov 2011 2:38 AM | Lisa Hymas

Posted on 11/13/2011 9:25:10 PM PST by Minn

Generation Y is more likely than older generations to support clean energy and environmental protection and to believe climate change is happening and is caused by human activity, according to new Pew polling and analysis. Generation X is close behind. Boomers aren't so bad either. It's the old folks, the so-called Silent Generation aged 66-83, that are the big problem.

There's long been talk about how gay rights will continue to advance as homophobic old codgers die off. Looks like the push for a cleaner, greener society will get a boost from that same cohort replacement effect.

(Excerpt) Read more at grist.org ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: awfullysilly; damnedsilly; environment; environmentalism; genx; grahamchapman; green; mushheadyutes; silly; sillycolonel
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A whole silly article and 85 comments from lefty readers, and it never occurs to a single one of them that maybe wisdom may be correlated with age and experience.
1 posted on 11/13/2011 9:25:11 PM PST by Minn
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To: Minn

Can’t wait to be governed by these Gen-Y’ers. South America is looking better all the time...


2 posted on 11/13/2011 9:29:26 PM PST by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: Minn

And then there’s this off to the right:

Best of Lisa Hymas on Grist

thumbnail for Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud

Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud

One look at Lisa and I can understand why lol


3 posted on 11/13/2011 9:31:24 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (There's nothing more hypocritical than a white liberal calling someone else a "bigot")
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To: Minn

I am young and I am not a f*n moron like the polled people.


4 posted on 11/13/2011 9:32:10 PM PST by digital-olive
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To: Minn

When the morons start paying for heat and hot water they will have a different tune.


5 posted on 11/13/2011 9:33:20 PM PST by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Minn
Young and gullible.

Wait until they figure out they've been played for fools.

6 posted on 11/13/2011 9:34:45 PM PST by DB
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To: Minn

You forgot the Barf Alert.


7 posted on 11/13/2011 9:36:21 PM PST by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Minn

They even made a movie about this - It’s called “Idiocracy”


8 posted on 11/13/2011 9:36:32 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Minn
Expect to hear more and more of this stuff, along with “old folks cost a lot in health care, and old folks are hoarding all the money in their retirement accounts, etc.”. Pretty soon euthanasia will be mandatory once someone hits 70.
9 posted on 11/13/2011 9:36:42 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: PALIN SMITH
"When the morons start paying for can no longer access heat and hot water they will have a different tune."

IMHO, it's going to have to reach that point before they start paying attention.

10 posted on 11/13/2011 9:37:23 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Minn

This article shows the effectiveness of brainwashing in the school system. Naturally they believe it. It has been pounded into their heads throughout their entire lives via the education system.

A friend of mine told me that his classmate became a Federal Judge. He still believed that the atom couldn’t be split, even after the nuclear bomb era. Why? He was taught that in school. He believed it until the day he died.


11 posted on 11/13/2011 9:38:33 PM PST by stilloftyhenight
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There's long been talk about how gay rights will continue to advance as homophobic old codgers die off.

Like the way they've advanced on the campus of Penn State, right?

Instead of sitting around waiting for people to die, gutless hispters, why don't you put down your iPhones, get off your asses and come get all of us wrong thinking folks. Otherwise, shut you dependent traps and get a f***ing job.

12 posted on 11/13/2011 9:46:16 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: stilloftyhenight

Its a perfect system. Brainwash them all through school and continue the lies via the MSM to keep them stupid (controlled) the rest of their lives.

Yeah, they really “get it” alright.


13 posted on 11/13/2011 9:46:24 PM PST by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: Minn; Grampa Dave; tubebender; hedgetrimmer; forester; calcowgirl; NormsRevenge; BOBTHENAILER
As a member of the so-called "silent generation" I simply cannot bring myself to delude myself with the extreme, fraudulent and pharsical and never ending diatribe of purely delusional thinking that makes up the Pagan Religion the lawyers and educators (indoctrineators) have deluded our children with!!!

When you boil it all down to the infectious pile of puss that makes up these myths everyone who is honest will realize that all these fractured fairy tales do is make everything cost more that even the wealthiest nation on earth can long afford!!!

All the Pew poll is doing is pushing further compliance to even further delude the poor Gen X an Y with the motivation of group think and fear!!!

14 posted on 11/13/2011 9:48:53 PM PST by SierraWasp (I'm done being disappointed by "He/She is the only one who can win" and being embarrassed later!!!)
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15 posted on 11/13/2011 9:50:08 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Otherwise, shut you dependent traps and get a f***ing job.

To which they can retort this: if you hadn't destroyed the economy, outsourced everything and imported millions of illegal aliens there would be a f***ing job to get!

I bet you don't like them apples, do you?

16 posted on 11/13/2011 9:55:47 PM PST by newzjunkey (Republicans will find a way to reelect Obama and Speaker Pelosi.)
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It’s not apples, it’s idiotic rubbish. Talk to your friends at the labor unions about labor costs and outsourcing. Talk to your big government friends in Washington about importing illegals, handing out no-money-down McMansion loans to people with no means of paying them back then printing trillions of fiat dollars to make up for the bank losses.

You think these kids care about illegals or finding work? Get real. Read their words. They care about Gaia, sodomy and free money.


17 posted on 11/13/2011 10:06:47 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Minn
It is probably far too late to turn back from the suicidal course the country has taken.

The government schools have had a lot of success in brainwashing students for the last 45 years or so and inculcating these ideas and beliefs:

Coming soon: Government approved Sex with children


18 posted on 11/13/2011 10:09:04 PM PST by Iron Munro (Ben Raines For President)
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As a Gen X’r I totally reject the B.S. That is Anthopogrnic Climate Change
19 posted on 11/13/2011 10:09:47 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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The X and Y were indoctrinated, the oldsters were educated.


20 posted on 11/13/2011 10:11:54 PM PST by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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