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I heard Radio Scotland's Call Kaye yesterday (hear it here), and quite frankly it left me...well, despairing.
The phone-in was discussing the recent Royal Commission on Environmental Protection report which states that the baby-boomer generation, those now aged 50-65, have the biggest carbon footprint and are also the least likely to do anything about it.
I've heard many excuses for this - they grew up during wartime and post-war austerity, they believed they had to live fast, they've worked hard and now want to enjoy the fruits of that.
But quite frankly, what I heard yesterday destroyed those myths. Simply, most people just don't care.
That was the overriding sentiment that came from the callers - climate change is nothing to do with us, whatever we do will have no effect anyway, so why should we change our lifestyle and feel guilty?
I'm increasingly of the opinion that the general public needs to be taken out of the equation when we're tackling these things. On the other hand, we've managed to change people's lifestyles slightly in the last few years despite their general opposition.
It's just hard to hear people say they don't give a stuff.
1 comments:
I think you will find that many of the baby boomers are among the MOST concerned about their environmental footprints and do a great deal of work to help our environment, so don't take this one piece of media for gospel.
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