Have you heard the latest conversations about “Ok, Boomer?”

Here’s a post from CNN: A 25-year-old politician got heckled during a climate crisis speech. Her deadpan retort: 'OK, boomer'

As Taylor Lorenz writes for The New York Times:

“Ok boomer” has become Generation Z’s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — and the issues that matter to them.

The above quote came from the NPR radio station 1A radio broadcast today on Ok Boomer.

I sent in the following email to the radio program:

Everyone needs to wake up to overconsumption and the social-economic-environmental crises that my Baby-Boomer post WWII generation created. Pollution is being exported from western countries to Asia and other parts of the world. Learning from Native Americans who made decisions based on considering future impacts to Seven Generations needs current consideration for sustainability. What kind of world are we leaving our kids, grandkids, and future generations?

The radio broadcast had some Boomers taking offense as if it’s a slur and cited great progress in environmental laws.However, many of these laws are being repealed or broken by politicians and corporations. Social movements are needed to create transparency and calls to action to mitigate the harm we are doing to ourselves and the planet. We just need to be more inclusive of all generations and not stereotype classes of people based on age, gender, religious beliefs, and ethnicity. Let’s get together to solve our common problems and make the world a better place to live such as through conservation efforts!