I think Millenials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are or will be better, especially with regard to parenting self awareness, but the reality is boomers have left us with a world where having children is financially unfeasible so it won't matter. But we can follow up in a few decades and see where things are at. I think Boomers will certainly be remembered a certain way (collectively).

I'm aware. In ancient hunter gatherer societies elders often accepted death gracefully once their care needs became a burden on the tribe. They knew that their final purpose was to look out for the greater good.

Things changed with the advent of civilization and especially modern medicine. Modern society has minimal if any comfort with death. If anything it fights it to the point of embracing the unnatural.

Boomers have been a burden for some time now. That doesn't mean they have to disappear nor are they the only generation in human history that has had a negative impact. But it's notable to the point that an asterisk will be put next to their era. They inherited, in many ways, a world of plenty (relative peace and abundance) and have left us with a world of scarcity (whether artificial or real).

That does not mean there aren't absolutely incredible people that are a part of this generation. But collectively, they have either actively or passively allowed institutions to be steered towards complicity with mass suffering and that will not be soon forgotten.

Im not American so I dont have a 401k, and im not part of New Deal or Great Society style programs...

Well, sorry, I shouldn't have directed this all at precisely you,... but I am used to 'Boomer' being a term Americans invented and used to describe their post WW2 population cohort... because that is the actual etymylogical origin of the term.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/baby-boomer.html

The term ‘baby boomer’ was coined in the USA, clearly with reference to the already widely known ‘baby boom’.

The term ‘baby boomer’ was coined in the USA, clearly with reference to the already widely known ‘baby boom’. This wasn’t for some years after WWII and the earliest citation I’ve found is surprisingly late – a piece in The Bennington Banner from December 1977:

This page has its first use in the US in 1977, as well as more background on the largely US centric and temporally first development of the term.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/baby-boomer_n?tl=true

The earliest known use of the noun baby boomer is in the 1960s.

OED's earliest evidence for baby boomer is from 1963, in Brattlebro (Vermont) Daily Reformer.

Another US origin.

If you are using Boomer to mean a non US person in that same age group, I guess that works, but perhaps you can see how that would lead me to assume you are American.

About perishing because climate change, I dont believe that will happen.

You are just objectively wrong then.

We've got major acturarial societies saying the cumulative World GDP will be massively shrinking within 20 years, as in less than it is now, with a billion or so more people to house and feed and employ... from climate change losses.

We've got global warming consistently exceeding consensus projections.

We've got almost all the world's fertile crop producing land going through a major climate shift or series of increasingly extreme shocks in the next 20 years.

The media just largely stopped talking about these topics.

In the US, we're looking at about 1/3 of the country's homes being too climate risky to insure, in just the next 5 to 10 years, insurers are already pulling out, local government run insurance could only work if they massively tax the wealthy, which they won't... so all those areas will be econonomically dead and climate ravaged in just 5 to 10 years.

All across the country, all of our farms are going untended, crops unharvested, because ICE is arresting migrant farm laborers willy nilly, and they often target places of work, so... they're not working anymore, and the result is going to be an artificially induced famine, an American Holodomor, massive food price increases, basically unless the entire Trump regime and MAGA movement is magicked out of existence, or they all suddenly become ... whatever the opposite of a deranged, craven idiot is.

If the US goes into a full depression, its because of its leaders. The rest of us havent done anything. I think you should blame them, and not previous generations of people just like yourself.

Precisely. I will blame the masses of voters who fell for the bs of the leaders, who voted them into power, who voted away their rights and futures.... in a democratic society.

Obviously the leaders themselves are evil.

But if our leaders are the problem, and they have been enabled, and not stopped, and we know they are leading us to ruin... and everyone just goes 'not my fault, i didn't do the really bad stuff personally, directly, myself!', then congrats, most of us will die and the rest will suffer greatly.

The entire evil of unexamined complex systems is that they abstract out things into so many layered steps that everyone can argue they aren't truly responsible or their actions were justified within the context of their specific role.

The purpose of a system is what it actually does, not what it purports or claims to do.

The only way to stop this is by applying Nuremberg style 'just following orders is not an excuse' logic, otherwise, again, most of humanity is going to die between 2040 and 2060.

... But, we have also passed the historical point where doing this would be even maybe kind of politically possible or likely.