Australia's lungs have collapsed and Generation X needs to take part of the blame | Paul Daley

It’s no longer the Boomers making the policy and political decisions – or abrogating their responsibilities to do so

The children of many of us Gen X-ers have been saying for years that we are going to bequeath a far worse world than the one we were born into.

I’ve written before, here, about what a dangerous place we’ll leave behind. But the criticism I’ve heard most from my family’s next generation, aged from 14 to 35, relates to us X-ers’ failure, refusal or inability to tackle the Boomer generation’s decades of inaction and intransigence on mitigating climate change. “Why didn’t you do more?”

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Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist

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