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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but [b]why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority[/b]?  That's annoying.  We're not superior.  We just lived through different times.  You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue.  But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.[/quote]

It is annoying. It's also pretty rich it's a Boomer griping about this one thing when ithe Boomer generation as a whole pretty much trashed the environment and was one of the largest contributors to climate change. But I guess you can feel virtuous about the water fountain thing? All the young people I know use reausable plastic or aluminum bottles. [/quote]

+1. The boomer generation was the one who created plastic bottles and marketed it to us in the 1990s, first for soda and then for water.  Drinking water is a good thing, so why can’t we promote drinking out of reusable bottles?  Oh that’s right, because it hurts Coke and Pepsi’s bottom lines.[/quote]Original pp here.  Yeah, this is pretty much what I was talking about.  My intent was to defend young people and I'm sorry to see that it's being followed up by attacks on boomers as a generation.  I know it's tempting to blame everything on a generation you don't belong to - boomers claim millennials are spoiled and weak - millennials blame boomers for trashing the environment - but we really should work on these problems together. Wasting your energy stereotyping an entire generation isn't going to address the real problems we as a community are facing. [/quote]

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