> I personally still don't know how to get through to most boomers ...
You can't. Key to solving climate and environmental problems is over-population and over-consumption. Boomers have been taught that they are entitled to big families and big cars and the latest toys. Tell them they can't have any of that, and see how popular you are.
> And let me ask you this: What positive experiences or benefits have you enjoyed in adopting a more sustainable lifestyle personally?
We eat like kings (my work colleagues complain about how amazing my leftovers smell when I heat them up at lunch); we have a lovely, comfortable house; and we have much reduced pressure of bills. We feel good we've preserved a little bit of untouched forest/bush, and increased the habit for the animals. We don't have children, which is good because if we did we'd be terrified for their future.
But ... I still commute 4 days a week (in a small car; there's no public transport) because of other financial requirements, and a lot of our life still falls short of an ideal because the required changes to truely live sustainably lack the required institutional and government regulations (like, there's still a ridiculous amount of unnecessary plastic for everything; you can't buy an apple without a little plastic label on it).
The biggest trick of the corporations was for them to move the responsibility onto us, and to have our consciences appeased by "recycling" and "buying green".
You can't. Key to solving climate and environmental problems is over-population and over-consumption. Boomers have been taught that they are entitled to big families and big cars and the latest toys. Tell them they can't have any of that, and see how popular you are.
> And let me ask you this: What positive experiences or benefits have you enjoyed in adopting a more sustainable lifestyle personally?
We eat like kings (my work colleagues complain about how amazing my leftovers smell when I heat them up at lunch); we have a lovely, comfortable house; and we have much reduced pressure of bills. We feel good we've preserved a little bit of untouched forest/bush, and increased the habit for the animals. We don't have children, which is good because if we did we'd be terrified for their future.
But ... I still commute 4 days a week (in a small car; there's no public transport) because of other financial requirements, and a lot of our life still falls short of an ideal because the required changes to truely live sustainably lack the required institutional and government regulations (like, there's still a ridiculous amount of unnecessary plastic for everything; you can't buy an apple without a little plastic label on it).
The biggest trick of the corporations was for them to move the responsibility onto us, and to have our consciences appeased by "recycling" and "buying green".