ITEM: I am a baby boomer. I find "Okay boomer" to be offensive. So my lane is... "Okay boomer" seems to be name calling. I don't care the intent of the speaker... I care about the perception of the target.

ITEM: I'm having a misunderstanding again. Are you saying that YOU are not grouping baby boomers together... that social scientits are doing this, and you're using their terminology. I get that, and can't argue with it.

ITEM: It seems that a lot of people use the simplification "baby boomers" as a collective to address actions that weren't taken by people - as you noted, blaming the Baby Boom Generation isn't the same thing as blaming a lot of people who are Baby Boomers. I would hope that people understand that - but it seems that so many don't, any more than some people want to group all the young people* for good things or bad things. I am irked by being lumped into "You baby boomers", as much as I would object to being classified as "You Jews."

I'm trying to point out that when we associate everyone into one group, we're not allowing the differences that could make friends out of enemies. I don't think I'm trying to be offended.

*I don't know the generational classification of today's young adults. Maybe "The Last Generation"?

Conspiracy theory all over again. You really think because a swede 16 year old has show business-related parents and an active Twitter account that givers her an "edge" to getting the TIME Magazine Person of the Year? Or that it's all an elaborate ruse to get there? Talk about naive.

Why would you think she is being forced into "the role"? Like most conspiracy theorists, it really says more about you than the people you accuse.

The fact that she is 16 years old and has a pretty good idea about what's going on and why shouldn't be cause for dismissal. Actually, it makes a lot of sense because her generation is inheriting this planet and that's a media friendly narrative and therefore more interesting than interviewing yet another scientist that people are going to ignore. 

Those very same scientists seem to overwhelmingly support her because they also know this. There's no rational argument to be a Greta hater, except if you wanna get into Trump mentality. 

Next thing you know you'll be saying Malala shot herself in the face just to get famous.

If you think that is not the case, you really need to open your eyes.

In the U.K., plastic straws disappeared from pubs & food establishments overnight - literally.

Supermarkets are talking of banning plastic packaging for vegetables.

Look, this is literally my job. I have spent my entire career in resource efficiency & pollution control. I have personally trained teams in over 20 countries in how to work with companies to deliver resource efficiency, with those programmes saving millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide, diverting millions of tonnes of waste from landfill.

I know what I am talking about.

You are talking about opinion & what you think. Good on you. I’m not. I’m talking as someone who is, & I really do feel qualified to say this, an expert in the practical application of resource efficiency & the circular economy.

But the bottom line is - you are wrong.

Things are changing, the public’s perception & knowledge is changing.

Greta Thunberg is helping with that. You don’t agree, for various & nebulous reasons - age, fame, Lord knows what.

Keep those opinions, but recognise them for what they are - opinions.

Evidence suggests you are wrong.

You'd be blind to not see the conspiracy. Also, following that reasoning Jaden Smith is Emperor of the Universe right now.

Listen, I get it.  You don't like a 16 year old as the voice of climate change.  You reduce her to nothing because of her age and relative lack of experience.  You dismiss her outright because...well...I don't really know why.  You choose to see her bringing an issue to light for many who, before her, didn't give two shits about it as...a bad thing?  What?  And then to call her the left's answer to Donald Trump?  Seriously?

Wonder why you're getting so much pushback....

And that's a bad thing?  I'm sorry, but anything....LITERALLY ANYTHING...that gets people to see climate change as real is OK in my book.  If it gets even a single person on our side, that's totally fine.  That person may beget someone else and so on.  This is how these things work.  Why you insist upon saying what she is doing is a net negative is beyond me.  

The only real negatives around Greta are the negatives brought by people who have issues with young people speaking their minds. To say she doesn’t know what she is talking about is incorrect. It’s not like she is saying climate change isn’t happening. It’s not like she is saying we have been doing enough to decrease the man made influences. 

You know, like some of the adults in the discussion have been saying. 

Having show biz parents don't necessarily make her famous.. But it might give her better insight on how to be famous. I think that may be her goal - be recognized enough to be heard.