I spent 11 years in America as a legal immigrant. I also have continued to work for American companies, plus I read the press for a good 5 hours every day. I know what is happening in America. Most of my friends are American.

You don't understand generalizations. You also don't understand that, regardless of the fight that is going on in America, baby boomers, internationally, did nothing about climate change.

The problem is immense. It would have taken three generations of effort to stop it in its tracks 50 years ago. Now, it is unlikely that it can be stopped. We've turned the corner.

Before the baby boomers, very few people knew about it. However, many books were published in the 60s about it. Baby boomers grew up with that knowledge.

They didn't give up their cars - regardless of which side of the political pendulum they were on. They didn't insist on massive public transport. It is irrelevant that a handful of people wanted to do something. The point is that it wasn't done.

"As for your comment about China, the number of jeans sold to the US is just a touch higher than the number of people in this country. " Um. Yes. Also, consider that of those 330 million people, a lot of them are babies and children, and all of you have to have 1.2 pairs of new jeans every year. Why?

The European Union has 447 million people in 27 different countries - all of which have very different cultures. And, yet, the EU can come to agreements about plastics, and a lot of other things? Why is it that the EU can do it, but Americans can't?

It is difficult in every country, regardless of numbers, to get agreement. Hell, two people in a marriage can't agree. This isn't about agreement. It is about the fact that baby boomers weren't socialists. They voted for neoliberalism at the time of Ronald Reagan, and now the chickens have come how to roost.

I'll be turning 72 in a few months by the way. You?