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42. Yeah we were just the best. We increased the concentration...

...of carbon dioxide by over 100 ppm in our lifetimes, strip mined mountains of coal, filled the seas with plastic, saddled our kids and grandkids and their grandkids with enormous debt, voted for two terms of Reagan, one term of Bush Senior, Two of Bush Junior, oh, and um, that fine fellow in our Generation, Donald Trump. We stripped scientists and engineers from corporate management and replaced them with asshole MBA's who were great at shuffling papers, exported all our plants to China and India, congratulated ourselves for recycling electronic waste - in China, where babies are born with absurdly high concentrations of flame retardants and heavy metals in our blood, got enslaved kids to dig cobalt for our "green" electric cars, and partied like there was no tommorrow.

Sex, drugs, rock and roll and real holiness, that's us.

These kids are emerging from college saddled with debt, poor job prospects, working their asses off, living in a poisoned world where everything is dying, and I'm so damned glad that we can look down on them and tell them how they suck compared to us.

I have no use for Bernie Sanders and his asshole revolution, which is pure 1969, but frankly, I'm not impressed at all with those of us who came of age in that time.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

As Greta Thunberg put it, "How dare we?"