This might be more in William Teach’s wheelhouse than mine, but when this article came up in my feeds, I couldn’t resist. From London’s The Telegraph:

Gen Z’s hypocrisy on climate change has made Greta Thunberg look a fool

If her generation are so worried about the ‘climate emergency’, explain the findings of this new poll

by Michael Deacon | Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | 7:00 AM GMT

At the UN Climate Action Summit of 2019, a 16-year-old Greta Thunberg gave the most famous speech of her young life. I’m sure we all remember. It was the one in which she indignantly squeaked “How DARE you!” at older generations for ruining their grandchildren’s future.

“You are failing us!” she hissed. “But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: we will never forgive you!”

If you are stymied by The Telegraph’s paywall, you can access it here for free.

Chastening stuff. In hindsight, however, I can’t help feeling that Greta’s ire may have been somewhat misplaced. Because it turns out that the young are wrecking the planet, too. In fact, they may be doing even more to wreck it than their grandparents.

Just look at the results of a new poll by the Civil Aviation Authority. It found that those aged 18-34 fly a lot more frequently than those aged 55 and over. In the past year, almost three quarters of the former group travelled by plane, compared with only half of the latter group.

That seems kind of odd, given that those of us in our senior years normally have more money than younger people.

This may seem unexpected, given that members of Greta’s generation are always telling pollsters – and everyone else who will listen – how terrified they are about climate change. But then, perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised. In 2023, a poll by YouGov found that young adults did less recycling than Baby Boomers. They were also less likely to save water, wash their clothes at low temperatures, and switch off electric lights when leaving a room.

Yeah, that one gets me, since I’m the only one who ever turns out the light in the pantry! But perhaps you can guess who pays the electricity bill here?

And that might be the reason the young whippersnappers — I’m just a couple of months shy of my 72^nd birthday, so “young whippersnappers” is a perfectly acceptable description for me to use — don’t turn out the lights. How many of them actually pay their own sparktricity bills? CNBC reported, on November 17, 2024 — after the election, but while Joe Biden was still President, “Approximately 1 in 3 U.S. adults ages 18 to 34 live in their parents’ home, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.” If mom and dad are still paying the electric bill, why would their kids be all that concerned with turning off the lights when the room is empty?

Much of the opposition to the activists’ proposals to fight global warming climate change is not due to disbelief in that change, but due to the tremendous costs those proposals would impose on taxpayers.

Mr Deacon does point out that the lovely Miss Thunberg has seemed more interested these days in wearing a ‘Palestinian’ keffiyeh and attending anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas demonstrations. But, as has been said by many other people in the past, bad causes attract bad people.

You might not think that supporting efforts to fight climate change is a bad cause, but, if you support Hamas, if you wear a ‘Palestinian’ keffiyeh, you might as well be wearing a Nazi armband or Ku Klux Klan robes.