Are baby-boomers to blame?

To some, this world-wide crisis appears like the result of missed opportunities. Remember the late 60s and the early 70s when everything seemed to be possible and easy, when a massive group of young people was thinking of reshaping the world. It started with those of us we stood against the Vietnam War, against capitalistic oppression and in favor of racial rights, sexual equality and ecology. Our pop songs proclaimed that good stuff, the books we loved were filled with it, but when we were lucky enough to get a job and started to smell money, earthly possessions, began to have kids and a mortgage, these good intentions faded away faster than we care to remember. After seeming to be dead-set against the system, we not only embraced it, we made it even more monstrous, by traveling the world over, by eating too much, by consuming excessively and by worshipping the credit gods. As there seems to be very few younger activists like us to denounce that we’ve made the system much worst, we all wonder if we’ll even be able to fix it. As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) originated the expression “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” we must have gotten badly lost along the way…