Sunday 29 May 2022 08:04 AM Baby boomers aren't the rich, selfish, climate change deniers you think they are trends now
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The baby boomer generation sometimes gets a hard time from those who came after them.
They're the generation often maligned as selfish and wealthy - ignorant of climate change, dismissive of the financial situation faced by young Australians, with prejudices hungover from another era. They aren't woke.
Except a recent survey suggests, perhaps they are.
Baby boomers are a much more diverse and empathetic generation than they are given credit for, a Council on the Ageing report indicates.
Baby boomers are a much more diverse and empathetic generation than they are given credit for, a new report indicates (stock image pictured)
Of nearly 6,400 NSW residents aged 50 or over surveyed, more than half said climate change was the most pressing issue facing Australia today: 'particularly thinking about my grandchildren and what it's likely to mean in their lifetime,' one said.
Further contradicting the preconception older generations are self-interested and socially conservative, the next
