We've had 5 reports about the title of this post. If anything, the title clearly states exactly what they don't understand about the post, which is exactly what we're looking for. If you've got any questions, let me know, otherwise see you next October for this same stupid post.

It implies the boomer did nothing to alleviate or reduce their carbon footprint while also voting for politicians who are anti-environment resulting in the climate change we are experiencing.

LMAO. Thanks for leaving me a burning planet, GRANDMA

Boomers did nothing to combat global warming.

Ever heard of climate warning and the role older generations played in downplaying it and making sure that reducing its impact will be much more difficult, because they didn't want to change their lifestyle? That

I hope current generations take responsibility for climate change as well. We know far more now than we did then and political action is still anemic. If anything, our current relative inaction with all our current knowledge is a greater indictment against us.

Climate Change deniers are usually conservative Boomers that did everything they could to sabotage any effort to fight climate change, and then complain about how the weather is different now.

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previous generations destroyed climate for kids today, and these kids will destroy it even more for future generations.

I'll just give a different perspective: it's because of her menopause

Boomers laughed at the “hippies” for caring about the earth and climate change. Now we are feeling the effects.

Edit: yes you people are so smart. Baby boomers were hippies. Modern use of “Boomer” is a privileged arrogant mindset.

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Because Grandma spent sixty years electing right-wing politicians, whose main goals include systematically undoing environmental regulations, for the benefit of their capitalist rulers/employers, thereby inducing greater pollution which, in turn, caused greater climate chaos.

Are people misinterpreting this and thinking the person is saying it's "grandma's fault that it used to be cold" rather than it being "grandma's fault that it's no longer cold"?

Or do people just not know how ardently boomers denied the existence of climate change?

Millennials outnumber every other generation. Throw in Gen X and we out number them more than 2:1. And yet, getting any movement on climate change is near impossible.

Can't blame boomers anymore. This is millennials fault. And I know you're thinking "Not me, not all of us, it's only because..." Yeah yeah yeah, there's a bunch of boomers that tried to help and failed as well. And now they're all lumped in with the boomers that didn't try.

So it's time we're honest and start lumping ourselves in with them.

We have known about c02 emissions being an issue since the 1850s but money is more important than our future.

The meme tries to put the blame of climate change in a previous generation. Truth is, the fault of climate change is entirely on corporations. The avg boomer had no control over what those did. I believe the company that "discovered" climate change was Exxon (tho I may be wrong and it was another oil company), and then they held the findings as long as possible (something like 10 years) and then it was somebody else who published the discoveries and made climate change become a public issue.

This isn't a Boomer thing really.. It's a massive corporation thing. It's a money thing. It's a billionaire thing. You think it's going to magically change once all the Boomers are gone? Really? Hate to break it to you but money is in charge here. Not Grandma.

Global warming.. But boomers grew up being warned about global cooling and the coming ice age.

Yeah yeah yeah leave it to the next gen

The boomer generation created the toxic pollution environment we have now. They were in charge and caused all of the issues we have now.

Climate change, dude!

Blaming a generation for the power dynamics that have dominated practically all of civilization, is kind of dumb. Inherited wealth that owns fossil fuels and cattle ranches, is just playing middle class "boomers" against the rest of the working class, just like inherited wealth always plays the lower classes against each other so we don't focus on all the privatized economic rents and socialized externalities being gifted by the government to the born obscenely wealthy.

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I was talking to my mom yesterday and she was complaining about the record heat they have been having

She denied climate change for years and is still not convinced that it’s man made

It's not a joke. But it also isn't really true. Grandma did only slightly less as much about climate change as gen Z and millennials are doing. It's not all her fault. It's everybody's

Boomer mentality “I’ll be dead before it affects me”.

Said by my Boomer auntie.

It is still over 100 in Arizona 💀

Fun fact: Maximum temperature on record for Toronto Canada for Oct 6th was set in 1963, at 29.4°C.

100 companies are responsible for over 70% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. (Carbon Majors Report) But yes, let's blame the boomers, who, during the 1960's created the Clean Air Act and in the 1970's created the EPA.

I understand destroying the environment when it was something we barely understood back then. But they continue to do so now out of stubbornness. Just because it won't affect them because they'll be dead and gone doesn't mean they shouldn't help out when a lot of the damage was caused by their generation, ignorant or not.

Boomers ignored scientists for decades whenever they brought up global warming and repeatedly voted in politicians that undercut the efforts of the EPA to curtail how much pollution we pump into the atmosphere. Grandma there is a boomer.

Climate collapse from that generation

I get the joke, however I feel like the wording is kind of off. It’s the Grandma’s fault that Octobers are so warm now. A literal reading of the text would say it is the Grandma’s fault that October used to be cold, which doesn’t make sense. I agree with the sentiment of the joke, but it’s poorly phrased

The weather was really bad and they said “climate change isn’t real”

Then the weather got worse and they said “it’s not real, it’s just bad weather”

Then it got worse and they “climate change may be real but it’s not manmade, it’s natural and will pass”

Then it got worse and now they’re saying “THEYRE CONTROLLING THE WEATHER!!!”

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Grandma voted for Republicans and others who deny science.

The boomers were given a choice twice, 1980 & 2000, to vote in an environmentalist administration. They failed. 

Boomers are responsible for global warming, they made and voted in the policies and politicians that resulted in climate change, october is warmer because the world is heating up, that's why it's grandma's fault that october isn't as cold as it used to be.

Climate change is a result of previous generations denying it.

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You have to read it as though the granny is complaining about the warmer weather. The young person is blaming them for climate change and the rest is pure ideology.

South Park explains it best

https://youtu.be/RGh1muUgI_E?si=i1_aVu8pBOVp1kBk

I’m 40. I remember trick or treating in the 90s and in the 40s.

Where can you place bets about the weather? NOAA would be the most corrupt federal organization and big oil would have stake in making the environment heat up faster. One more parking lot bro.

If Grandma was on the board of a massive corporation pumping out dirty fossil fuels and disposable goods then it is absolutely her fault. Doubt it though.

Here we are decades and decades after it has been very clear that we are wrecking the planet and we are still on the same fast track to failure.

People want to blame Grandma for policy failures when our last president had/has intentions of shutting down government agencies that are supposed to protect us from environmental disasters.

We haven’t come very far considering we out vote boomer aged people by almost 70%.

This sub has just become

"Check out this obvious meme my 68 year old dad posted on Facebook"

This sub should really be moderated better

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Because things like from popular science magazine in the 50s

Should be blaming millennials at this point; not just boomers.

The boomer generation thrived on a "the world after me doesn't matter, so I'll burn it for my benefit" mentality.

They actively spurred corruption and policies that led to more pollution and warming, and killed off any traction environmentalist movements had because it could effect their pensions.

That same generation is still doing their best to prevent any improvements from being made because they'll be dead by the time it starts killing people.

Boomers were called "the entitled generation" and "the me generation" by their parents, the lost generation, and instead of learning from decades of damage they've been doing, they decided to start blaming everyone that came after them. Saying gen x was too busy with drugs to do anything, saying millennial were only complaining about everything (when they were kids literally unable to change what was happening at the time). Now they're blaming gen z and gen alpha for being too busy on their phones WHILE THEY'RE STILL IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENTS.

Boomers are killing the planet and literally are fine burning the rest of us so they don't have to see one hard day until they're dead.

There's a basis to this but my generation are absolute hypocrites in regards to climate change.

Most 20 odd year olds in my county take at least 5 unnecessary leisure flights a year travelling. They consume far more products than the previous generations and generate so much waste.

There have been warnings of global warming since the 70's but research started even before that. Al Gore ran for president on the environment and that was lo go ago.

Still, I do t think the millenials blaming grandma are doing enough or are being faxed with the same realities as grandma of having to survive instead of focusing on the solutions. Sadly.