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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.

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KEYWORDS: awfullysilly; damnedsilly; environment; environmentalism; genx; grahamchapman; green; mushheadyutes; silly; sillycolonel
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To: Bernard Marx

There has never been a bigger political hoax in the history of mankind than that of human-caused climate change.

Perhaps we could add “in our day”.

After a bit of historical contemplation, I am going to disagree not to be disagreeable but to postulate that such activity is a necessary evil (no pun intended). Deception is how “stuff happens”. Keeping oneself and family from being deceived is one of the challenges of life. “The truth shall make you free” is not just an idle biblical truth, but a necessity especially today when so much truth is available, but correspondingly so is the other “stuff”.


41 posted on 11/14/2011 6:25:26 AM PST by wita
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To: Minn

May your chains wear lightly upon your wrists, youngsters.


42 posted on 11/14/2011 7:03:17 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Route797

They are rotten because the foundation IS socialism, and socialism does rot.

The schools were rotting and helping to rot this society long before the rottenness was too great to keep hidden anymore.

But all things rot because all humans, any organization, will have corruption and rot. All of them.


43 posted on 11/14/2011 8:38:19 AM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: TruthConquers

I guess it depended on which state you called home back then.


44 posted on 11/14/2011 9:09:22 AM PST by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: Minn

Liberal drivel.


45 posted on 11/14/2011 11:10:29 AM PST by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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